Kuala Lumpur

June 8th
Way better than Penang. People are nicer(though still kinda mean??) and its cleaner and theres vegetarian food, and useable public transit. The public transit is exactly like the LRT's in Calgary.

We went to go do our visa's today at the Thai Embassy....closed. (DOH!)

So we walked around and went to parks, a lake, a Muslim museum and went to the market.

The bus ride here was terrible. We actually took an extra 8 hour bus out of Penang into this city, JUST to avoid Penang. We could've done all our paperwork there, but we just don't like it at all. Daryl can back us up on how much it sucks there.

We went looking for a vegetarian restaurant and ran into a lady that was also vegetarian, we told her we were looking for Chinese vegetarian food and she took us to a place and showed us (about a 20 minute walk, she walked us there!) and then we invited her to eat with us because she just got off work. She was really shy to talk with us but she showed us her favourite dish and we all shared our foods so we all got the best of everything. Then her brother showed up to pick her up and she paid for our supper! She was really nice. The nicest person we've ever met in Malaysia. (We are also with a friend we met from England. She teaches Yoga in Koh Phagnan and her name is Sam)

Hopefully we can get our Visa's done tomorrow because we need to go back to work.

Scott sold us his motorbike. We're getting rid of the old Yamaha for his Honda Click. Its a lot smoother of a ride, it has a carborateur, the lights work (so you can drive it at night), it doesn't backfire when you drive, its a cooler color and its quieter. We gave him 10,000 baht and just have to give him another 10,000 sometime in the next few months.
The other bike was no good. we've gotten it fixed too many times and we were paying 2,000baht a month (which is what you pay to lease a brand new bike from a dealership) so we decided to trade 'er in.

The kids are all writing tests next week so we are worried about how they will do. Because they have only been learning for 2 weeks and their test results will decide how good of teachers we are or not....but we started doing "extra classes" in the last period of school, where we basically give extra help to our students who are struggling to improve their marks.

The school is now doing Tae Kwon Do lessons which we do NOT appreciate. (mainly because the little boys are born ninjas anyways, so its gonna make classes harder)

We are going home in 2 hrs from Kuala Lumpur to HatJai, then HatJai to SuratThani. Should get there in about 12 hours hopefully! The border always takes a while, plus we have to wait until 6am for it to open (taking overnight bus)

June 9th
We both got 3 more months added on to our Visa's today. We checked out a very big 5-story mall, twin towers, art gallery and went back to the market to find a sweater for Jessica (rainy seasons on its way!)
We told the girl at the Embassy that we were in a hurry to get back and she bumped our paperwork to the front and now we get to leave tonight instead of tomorrow night!
We're kinda glad about this because we didn't like the place we were staying in. We weren't treated very nice and we found a mouse in our room.
:D