Grateful

It has been a while since my last blog. My reason?! The fun’s over ;-) When I am home I have a lot of homework so no time to write my blog, sorry. A lot has happened since the last time I wrote.

Noor aka Noraishah aka Aishah aka Sasha aka Steven is here visiting her family. This meant that I would also visit them. “two for the price of one;-)” I really like her family and I feel really welcome. It is so different from the Dutch. Here I can eat as much as I can (and people who know me, know how much I can eat) without feeling guilty about it. Or I can take a nap while still in their house. In Holland that would be "not done". Anyway I spend a lot of time with Noor and her fam, it is nice to see how they live and get a “family feeling”.



Time is going so fast now but with time I am beginning to like Singapore more and more. I am beginning to build my own life. You know? I get to know more people and do different things, getting to know the school and see school activities. For example we went to a cheerleading competition of our hall (hall 4), we did not win but it was lots of fun, and they were all really good. It is to bad we do not really have these kind of things at the HES (my school). It is really nice to see the team spirit.

KUALA LUMPUR



Last weekend Noor and me went to Kuala Lumpur (KL). We stayed at her “auntie’s” house. (she is actually a good friend of her mom but they call that aunty here) the first and the third night. I really enjoyed it, and again I felt very welcome. We were there from the Friday the 25th till Monday the 28th. We arrived in KL after about a six hour drive (by a very luxurious bus). It was night when we arrived in KL but that didn’t stop the family (including the 5yr old kids) from taking us out, eating and shopping etc. Noor’s “cousin” Nazirul drove us everywhere, which was really nice. We went to sleep at about 4.30

26th> We woke up late Nazirul picked us up, we went to the twin towers and shopping. We had dinner (I had a huge hamburger).  Nazirul brought us to Aglam's house and waited for us to get ready (see pic). At night we went out with a friend of Noor (Ahlam) we also slept at her house.

27th We woke up late again, at about 16.00 Nazirul picked us up and took us to Times Square (there is a rollercoaster in the mall!!). After we went to China town to do some more shopping than we went home, makan (eat). 

Then Nazirul took us (night) fishing, can you imagine Noor and me fishing ;-D?? I always learned you had to be quiet. The fishing was really fun we played cards and ate Durian. I did not really like it, it was ok but it has a very strange structure. At one point Noor and I really needed to pee but there was no toilet so Nazirul had to drive us there, We (Noor and I) were so happy to find a toilet (I thought) but when we got to the stall there was a HUGE spider (the size of the palm of my hand). We were too scared to go in the stall and called Nazirul out of the car to take away the spider but he decided it was too big and we went back in the car (4.30 in the morning) to find another toilet. Luckily we found one and after that we could go back to continue to “fish”. Off course nobody caught any fish, but it wasn’t less fun because of it. After fishing we went home but we were lapar (hungry) and tak ngantok (not tired) so after a wile we decided to go out again (in our pyjama’s) . We went and had teh tarik (a special tea with milk and sugar) and ate noodles, while seeing the sun come up. When we got home some people already went to work/school and we passed out on the floor in the living room.

28 Last day KL
Tidor, tsidor, tidor (sleep, sleep, sleep) than we left for the bus stop. Arrived at the busstop there were 2 busses there, the “stuart” told us we had to go in the back bus. So we waited but at 18.40 there was still nobody there and the other bus was getting ready to leave. We found this strange since our bus was suppose to leave at 18.45. We asked the personnel from the other bus (again) and he said it would be ok, we just had to wait. So when the first bus left and the personnel of the other bus arrived we found out that we were actually suppose to be in the first bus!! Lucky us, we had the same
“stuart” as we had on the way to KL so he recognized us and told us it was an extra ride and there were only six people on the bus (dubble decker). Since nobody had “vip” tickets we could sit downstairs. It was GREAT!! Check the pics, it looks more like a hotel than a bus!


                                           

Grateful
During this trip I am realizing that I am (and should be) really grateful for the opportunities I have of studying here and doing all these things. That I should be really grateful for the way Noor’s “family and friends” are treating me and allowing me to be part of their live, if only for a short time. So if any of them will ever read this; THANK YOU!!