After breakfast, we went to a local high school. It was an amazing performance, we were 'drummed' in to the school, and met by such friendly students and teachers. After hearing about the school, the students put on some amazing performances. The first was a singing group, who were so good, and looked like they were really enjoying themselves. Next was a poem recital, which took some skill - I couldnt have remembered the monologue! Then there were some dance recitals = traditional malay, indian and chinese. Such beautiful costumes. Finally their choir sang some traditional songs.
Afterwards, our students sang Advance Australia Fair and Waltzing Matilda in both English and Indonesian. One of the students, Johnny, has his birthday today, and the Malaysian students got so excited when Jodee announced we were going to sing Happy Birthday in English, Malay and Indonesian - they joined in very enthusiastically!
Gifts were exchanged between the schools and students (including the boys giving some Aussie Rules footballs to the school, which of course they had to teach the students how to kick!), and we were provided with a traditional 'breakfast' (which became lunch) of rice, Sambal (chilli), peanuts, boiled egg and anchovies. This gave all of us a great opportunity to speak with the students and staff. All the students had such a great time, as they were able to spend quite a bit of time sharing (dancing, kicking the footy, dancing etc) with the students. When it was time to go everyone was really disappointed, although heaps of photos had been taken and email addresses exchanged.
After the school visit, we went to the Royal Selangor factory to see how the pewter goods are made, this was just a quick visit as it was just down the road from the school. This was followed by a wander through the bird park, which was lovely, but a lot more birds were in cages than I expected. Finally it was back to the hotel for emailing, resting (and some shopping for those who were interested) before heading out for Teppanyaki for dinner, and back to the markets for another go! The Teppanyaki was disappointing, it was really just a japanese restaurant, where the service was extremely slow - it took an hour to serve our 20 meals! Everyone was tired and grumpy, and wanted to go shopping, so it wasnt the best meal we have had... But Jodee did well with Johnny's birthday cake - Chocolate Mud YUM!!!
The market was crowded, and the part of the market I was interested in closed 5 minutes after we got there, but didnt matter. It was a late night by the time we got back to the hotel.
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