Well, we have now been here a month. We have packed so much into such a little amount of time that it seems longer.
Some of the highlights of this week were:
Going with Raj, a worker at our school, to little India to the Banana leaf and eating Indian food. The food was amazing and it was nice to have a short tour of Little India and one of the temples there from Raj.
Having a 2 1/2 half day work week so that we could celebrate Chinese New Year.
We went to Malaysia for Chinese New Year and went to the Pulai at Desaru Beach. It was very nice but the trek there was kind of interesting. When we booked our arrangements we thought we were taking a boat ride there and it ended up being a taxi and 3 buses! We were in one bus station for 3 hours because we missed the connector bus by 5 minutes, and the workers were all yelling trying to get you on their buses and one lady was trying to get Chris to buy lotion so she rubbed it on his arm. We quickly found a corner in a Dunkin' Donut shop to get away from the noise and read. Many shops have been closed the last 4 days while everyone celebrates. It is not officially over until the 14th of Feb. but most people will be back to work tomorrow.
Time for me to get busy and get ready for the week ahead. I hope all of you are doing well. I will post some pictures of our trip.
Marta
