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...

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...

We're just coming to the end of a fab couple of days in singapore. Had a couple of days off between finishinh at the YWCA and starting our next project at WCH which is an HIV and AIDS hospice near KL so at the last minute we decided to zoom off to singapore on the bus to make the most of our free time! It's amazing how different it is to Malaysia already;the people are much less friendly. In KL so many people stop to ask who you are and what you are doing but si...

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...