Hi again from a very dramatically stormy Malaysia.

You will be pleased to hear that everyone is currently well, working hard and having a fantastic time.  Since I last blogged, we have been working hard to rehearse for a performance this saturday night at Dram Projects.  Kotak Otak will see all of our group members performing the work in progress to an invited and friendly audience as a way of sharing the work of the exchange partners.  The York group will perform their piece which was inspired by the contents of the Malaysian box, Innie and Shireen will perform a piece inspired by the Malaysian box while the Malaysian group will perform a piece inspired by the contents of the York box.

Yesterday the whole group opened the box from the Soho group and as I type, the rest of the group are working hard to devise an opening and closing to the whole performance which is inspired by the content of the Soho box as well as polishing the original performance (for some reason "Hey Big Spender" is being sung very loudly, we shall see what that is about later!).

The opening of the Soho box was a really interesting experience and the contents appear to have moved and inspired the group a lot.  It was also really strange to find pictures of Gemma in there who we all miss a great deal and everyone commented that it would have been great to have Gemma with us while the box was opened.

For those of you who spotted that Hannah was missing from the last group picture and therefore that she was one of the people who was ill, you were absolutely correct!  So here to make up for it is a very nice picture of Hannah at the Shadow puppet event in Kelantan.  Hannah would like me to go into more detail about her friendship with the toilet but I am refusing!!!!  You will all thank me for that!

Another highlight of the week has been a visit to the Magick River where we spent a gorgeous afternoon with Antares who took us to a beautiful spot along the river where we swam, sat under small waterfalls and generally had a fabulous time!

The open mic night was a fantastic success and the contributions from our group members was a brilliant addition to the night.  Many thanks once again to Spoon and Henry, Henry by himself, Anna and Shireen.  Fantastic performances.

Anyway, here are some more pictures to prove we are all actually in Malaysia and having as much fun as we say we are!!!