Wonderful Weekends

Well as I said in my last blog, we LIVE for the weekends. Friday comes around and everyone is eager to go out and do something. This weekend though, about half of us (not including me) were sick. Whether it was food poisoning or a virus we're not too sure, but they were sick and it wasn't fun. So we all took it pretty easy. I to the mall for dinner with Breann, Jill, Sefel and Dylan (stef was in bed sick). Then went to a pub with Justin, Alyssa, Thomas, and two of Thomas' friends who were in KL for the weekend and had a few drinks with Justin's boss and coworkers. Afterwards one of the guys Justin works with took us for a late night Malays snack and gave us some tips about KL. Pretty interesting and low key night, but it was fun!

Early saturday we were up to get on the bus and go to UiTM (Universiti Teknologi Mara), the biggest university in Malaysia with over 20 campuses and 200,000 students! Pretty amazing compared to lethbridge's just over 8000 students. We went to the university to share with some of their students what life is like in Canada and to get to know some locals our age. After a quick breakfast and a few presentations we got back on the bus with the students from UiTM to go to the Blue Mosque in Shah Alam (one of 14 states in Malaysia) The mosque was beautiful, and interesting, but the outfits the girls had to wear were not!

I have a whole new level of respect for the Muslim women who wear outfits like this everyday. I can tell you, in 35 degree weather, this outfit does not cool you down, or make you look any better! haha Never the less, it was a very entertaining few minutes when we had to put these outfits on, the guys of course got to keep their shorts and t-shirts...lucky. But it was pretty humorous, and we got some good pictures!

After the mosque we drove to Putra Jaya, another one of the states, for lunch at the mall there and then a tour of the modern architecture in the area. It is a major center for goverment there, so many of the government building were newly built and renovated and were fairly interesting!

We got back to the hotel at around 5, excited to lay by the pool and work on our tans, but mother nature decided to be mean and bless us with a thunderstorm. So instead of the pool we all got together and planned a trip for next weekend! We were going to go to Singapore, but decided it was really expensive and there wasn't enough to do to make it worthwhile, so we switched to Penang instead! We're staying in a hostel there for 2 nights, and there's a lot of cultural stuff to do there, so it should be fun! I think most of the people on the trip are coming too, but maybe not staying at the same place, so we might see them there!

After planning our trip, stef wasn't feeling well, so Breann and I went to go and see a movie, but got there to find it sold out and settled for shopping instead! Didn't find much, but wandered around for a while. When we got back, we ran into a few others and went down to hang by the pool for a bit before bed.

Sunday morning came way to fast, and we all got up to head over to the Petronas Towers! Stef's boss got us free tickets, which was nice because normally you have to be at the tours at around 7 to get tickets. We just had to show up for 9:20, which was difficult...we got there a few minutes late, but thanks to malaysia time which means nothing, we were able to go up with our time group. The bridge is half way up the towers at the 41 floor and we were given 15 minutes to take pictures and admire the view. It was beautiful and we got a few good pictures!

After the towers we headed to the Sunway Lagoon Water Park! It was fun to spend a day in the sun going on waterslides and rides and seeing a few animals in the wildlife park! It was a family outing, so our whole room went minus Verane because she was sick. But I think Stef and Breann and I were 3 of about 10 girls in the whole park with bikinis on.. we were getting a lot of attention, being light skinned and not covering up! Stef had to go down one of the water slides with a stranger because you needed partners and everyone was cheering for the "lucky" guy who got to go down with her! It's like we're celebrities here, having people take picture with us, and of us, it's pretty entertaining!

After a full day of fun at the water park, we headed home for dinner and a quick rest before Stef, Breann and I went to a movie. Pirates of the Caribbean.. it was pretty good, but the best part was our seats.. In Malaysia you can buy Gold Class, Preferred Class, or regular class seats, and we of course bought Gold Class, which provides you with a private theatre, lazyboys to sit in, blankets, and a call button to have food brought to you whenever you like! AWESOME! there are some pictures in my Malaysia 2 album of the full movie experience!

I'm at work right now, and sad it's monday! But the weekend is only 4 and 3/4 days away so i'm pretty excited!! I'll try and write another post this week with a new update! and Lani... i'll do my best to keep you entertained with at least 2 posts a week!

Love and miss you all!! <3