Finally the sun has come out and allowed me to experience a bit more of Penang that just its shopping centres and internet cafes! Yesterday, once it had finally stopped raining and the floods had subsided I took myself off on the bus to Penang Hill which is about half an hour outside Georgetown. The only way up (other than a jungle trek) is a 30 minute funicular ride which they do their best to make as similar to travelling on the Northern Line as possible: horr...

Firstly a huge thankyou to everyone who sponsored me in Sweat to Smiles 2007. It was a really good event raising RM 10,000 (about 1500 pounds) of which I managed to raise RM 840 thank you very much! I even won a prize as one of the people managing to raise the most although I cheated a bit by getting people in England to sponsor me! I've just finished a couple of days in the Cameron Highlands to recover from overexerting myself at aerobics. It's a huge area abou...

So I survived my visit to the rainforest! In spite of hundreds of warnings about tigers, elephants, giant mosquitoes and leeches I made it back to tell the tale with only a couple of bites as souvenirs... The journey into the rainforest qas quite a journey in itself. After getting the bus to a little village called Kuala Tembeling you have to get a boat into the national park. In my head, i was expecting a nice little boat with a deck and bar and lots of seats a...

I'm just about to leave KL for now and head off into the rainforest for a few days and thought I should do a quick update just in case I don't make it back... The last couple of weeks have been much more of the same work really, going backwards and forwards from Batu Arang for rehearsals and more English classes but it's been great and I'm really sad to have left and had to say goodbye to everyone. Luckily I'm flying back from Thailand in a couple of weeks to wa...

Selamat Hari Raya! I'm currently back in KL for a week of rehearsals with the Fallen Leaves group from WCH before going back to stay there and do some more work with them so taking full advantage of things like working internet! Our last few days at WCH were very hectic but great fun! This weekend was Hari Raya - a big holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan so we were in charge of organising a party at WCH on Sunday night. It was such a good event and hopefully...