We've now been working at the Welcome Community Home for a week although it feels much longer because it's such an intense place. It's a community of men with HIV and AIDS in a town called Batu Arang, about an hour and a half outside KL. They have a number of houses around the town with different groups living in them. We've been working in House 1 which is for the men who are very ill and have just been discharged from hospital, and House 7 where they have reco...

Hi everyone, I'll try to keep this slightly shorter than the last one after being told off for writing essays! I'm now in my last couple of days teaching at the YWCA which is quite strange. I think it'll be quite weird to go off to a new project and start doing the same things again with a new group of people as we've all got to know the girls here really well and it's been so nice to be based in the centre of town. We leave on Friday and are going back to work...

Just arrived back from our very well deserved 3 days off in Melaka which is a couple of hours south from KL on the coast. We were planning to have some time swimming and chilling out on the beach but it turns out Melaka has some of the dirtiest water in the world so we stayed in town and did lots of sightseeing instead! It's a really nice, chilled out place to spend a few days away from KL. We stayed in Chinatown in a bizarre little hostel called Sama Sama which...

So after my first couple of very hectic days I'm now in some kind of a routine, or at least everything is starting to make a little bit more sense! Saturday was my first day working on my project and was great fun! It's a place called Cloudbreak Development Centre (www.mycloudbreak.com if anyone's interested!) and they offer all kinds of creative workshops for local children and businesses as well as organising sending volunteers out to work in more deprived are...

Hi everybody! Well I've arrived safely, if a bit sleepy and grumpy and am starting to get settled in in KL. I landed at about half 7 yesterday morning and bravely decided not to go straight to bed for the rest of the day once I got to my guesthouse but went on a big explore instead... What started as a simple mission to buy a Malaysian sim card was quite an expedition in the midday heat but I finally found a lovely man to sell me one who was delighted to find ou...