Presentations and Working on Saturday

My work is in full swing. We started presenting our presentations and lessons to numerous classes of students at Perfection The Training Academy. We did two presentations on Friday and a whole bunch on Saturday (yes, I had to work on Saturday and even had to be at the train station at 8am!). After that, we thought we were done all the presentations but it turns out that we have to continue doing them all next week! It's going to get really boring for us and we need to make sure that the students are engaged. 


All the people in our apartment went out on Friday night to see the night market in KL. There were a lot of stores selling souvenirs and other interesting things. We also got to barder for anything we bought which was interesting. The strange thing in KL is that stores are open really late. This market closed at 10 and most stores close at 11. This is also because the people are not very active in the mornings. After exploring the market, a few of us were ready for a drink. We wondered around the streets of KL looking for bars but this was harder than we thought it would be since it is such a religious country. We finally found this roof top bar on top of a hostel. We met a lot of really interesting people our age from all around the world like London, Finland, Australia, US, Norway, France and probably some other that I didn't get a chance to chat with. We even got to meet the owner and participate in some games! It was nice to get out for a bit such a fun place to be! 


Today, Jessica and I had to give presentation to classes in the different centers. They are located throughout KL and it took quite a while to get to them- also because the traffic here sucks! Trains are NEVER on time, red lights stay red for very long periods of time, there are no rules for pedestrians, and there are crazy motor bikes zig zagging through traffic. Our assistant manager had to drive us around. We were pretty exhausted by the end of the day and took a dip in the pool to relax. Here our some pictures of the last few days.

Fancy Buffet

Chocolate fountain and more desserts behind me

My boss, Mr. Christopher at the buffet holding fish paste in banana leaf. This was burned on a fire and tasted really good

Mr. Christopher, me and Jessica enjoying desserts

Local fruits: Dragonfruit, yellow watermelon and lychee

After the buffet, we needed a walk to digest our food. We went to china town (it was 10pm here) and walked by all the vendors. They are quite pushy, especially towards white people.

"Fast" street food. I saw this a lot around KL. People cook food on the street and try to sell it. I'm hesitant to try it because who knows how long the food has been sitting in the hot sun already...

Fresh Sugar Cane juice. The cane was run through this machine multiple times to extract all the juices.

Walking to the night market. Beautiful buildings all lit up in changing colors

Scenery of down town Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Night Market

Lots to buy

This was the next destination after the night market. View from the roof top. You can see the KL tower and the Patronas Towers lit up.

With the owner

Tonight and tomorrow are going to be calm days to get caught up on some reading and down time. Hopefully the sun will make an appearance so that I can get my tan going!