I flew from Chiang Mai to Kuala Lumpur and then from Kuala Lumpur to Penang. I was pretty excited at my friend Sabina arriving in a few hours! I checked into the hotel and had a shower. It was so nice to have a powerful shower! The shower at the shelter was pretty dreadful. You were lucky if you got a trickle of water out of it. Sometimes you would turn it on and nothing would come out at all! I took a bus back to the airport, and the journey took so long! She was due to land at 9pm so I was hoping to get there just before that incase the flight landed earlier. I sent her a message at 9pm to tell her to hang tight incase she gets out before I arrive. I finally got there at 9.15pm and she was already there waiting! I was really hoping to be there waiting when she got out but still, it was so good to see her! She teased me that she had travelled all the way from Australia and I couldn’t even be bothered turning up on time! I tried to defend myself with tales of the hour long bus journey after waiting half an hour for the bus to arrive but I think it fell on deaf ears. We got a taxi back this time!

It was kinda funny, we hadn’t seen each other for 10 months, but we had been talking every day during that time. So we already knew pretty much everything that had happened in each other’s lives during that period but still it was great to actually chat face to face. The next few days we spent in Malaysia didn’t really live up to our expectations. It rained a lot during the time we were there! We went to see Penang Hill on our 1st day which was pretty cool. You take a train up an incredibly steep hill! The top of the hill is 2750 feet above sea level. The views were great from up there, but then as we were about to head down, there was a power cut and we ended up being stuck up there for 3 hours until the power came back and they were able to run the trains back down the hill. We managed to make the days fun though somehow! I was so happy that I had her with me as it would have been pretty miserable there on my own! Here are a few pictures: