Well, we have been here for a week now and everyone is a little bit more tanned, have a few more bites and are absolutely loving every second of being here!
Firstly to all of you who have been checking the site to check up on your loved ones, I am sorry but today is the first chance we have had to get close to some internettage.
We have had a few people making friends with the toilet! But today, everyone is well, happy, loving their surroundings and lapping up all the experiences that the Malaysian group are providing for us.
The group in Malaysia have been so welcoming, so friendly, so keen to share experiences with us. We all feel so privileged to be here. Quick breakdown of the trip so far:
Day 1: Batu Arang. A visit to a hospice where Cloudbreak have been working with a group to educate people about HIV and AIDS awareness.
Day 2: Flight to Kelantan and visit to temples, craft fairs and a stunning Shadow Puppet Theatre visit.
Day 3: 1st group workshop. Visit to Buddhist temple, lunch with Kelantan minister, visit to cultural centre.
Day 4: Visit to Market, batik workshop (where we made an awesome piece of Batik!!!)
Day 5: 12 hour train journey!!!!!!! from Kelantan to Kuala Lumpur.
Day 6: KL city live tour. The Malaysian group took us on their own personal journey around KL taking us to places of importance to them. A really amazing way to see a city and to see places we would never have seen otherwise.
Day 7: Group workshop. Our first workshop with Brian and our first visit to Cloudbreak studios which was great. As I write, most of the group have gone swimming in Daphne's pool (I don't think she realised how many were going to turn up!!!!) And a select group of us are sitting with iced tea writing to you.
I am being told off for not writing about Shireen so may I take a moment to say how fantastic it is to have 3 members of the Soho group with us here in Malaysia. We have come into this project at quite a late stage so to have some of the group from the UK who started this project is fantastic for us as we learn more about the origin of the project. Gemma has unfortunately had to go home now, she might even still be flying!!!! We miss her hugely already.
Tonight we have an open mic gig in which Henry, Spoon, Anna, Shireen (2 mentions now Shireen!) and Innie are performing.
I hope to update this blog more soon but I have had to steal Owen's computer as mine will not log on to the web for some very annoying reason.
I hope this bit of info makes up for not adding any info sooner.
3 comments:
I miss you guys so much. Really want to come back. Hope the workshopping is going well. Really looking forward to showing the UK off. I have a meeting tonight with the rest of the Soho group and can't wait to give them all the gossip on you lot. Speak again soon. Much love, Gemma xxx
Hey, you guys! You've visited Magick River... now splash around in the Magick River BLOG! :-) How come nobody has added me as facebook friend yet???
We've been back in England a week now, and its fair to say we left the hot sunny weather in Malaysia. Lots of grey skies and rainy days, very typical British weather.
Tonight the York group are meeting up to make plans for when the Malaysians come to visit, lots of ideas so far, but we've got a lot to live up to! We all had such a fantastic time out there, lets hope we can match the experience here in England.
We also brought some Milo back with us, so tonight we'll crack it open and share our jetlag stories, and start making plans into reality.
Missing everybody immensly,
thank god for facebook!
All the best
Anna x
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