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Hiya, firstly apologies for the long delay in writing this message and getting you all up to date.
Picking up from the last entry i have now left New Zealand and am currently in Penang, Malaysia where I have been for about the last week. The last couple of days while in New Zealand were pretty relaxed, and just involved walking round Auckland and enjoying the sun there with the last remaining members of the group that I did most of my travelling with while I was there. We also had a trip to teh cinema to see street kings and somehow I had 5kg of stuff to send home!
Then I was off to Malaysia! I got a flight from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur and then at the airport met Alex to get the connecting flight up to Penang island. We arrived around 10pm and were in the appartment (so kindly lent to us by Audrey Tang (my old drama teacher!) and her father) by about midnight after collecting the keys on the way. The two of us spent the first day getting to know Batu Ferrenghi (local town) and using the facilities at the appartment which included a swimming pool, jacuzzi and gym (we really have landed on our feet here!).
The next day Phil and Jade came to join us and with them not knowing about Alex's presence the reunion was pretty cool and we got the surprise on video too (classic viewing!). Since they arrived we have spent most of the time relaxing and were also joined by jades friend Poppy for some of the time as well before thy left for Langkawi together leaving just the three of us boys. However before they left we hired a car for two days to see the island a bit better, including penang Hill, some temples and the Botantical gardens (driving in another country is alwasy an experience, especially when lanes mean nothing and there are hundreds of mopeds on teh road!). Since there departure we have been into Georgetown and even went to the cinema which cost us an extortionate rate of $3USD!
Highlights also include having a monkey in the kitchen and taxi rides with erratic and hilarious drivers!
Thats about it at the moment as we have been unlucky with Alex being able to change his flight, so it looks like he has to fly from penang regardless of the two flights being seperate so its likely we will be staying in this area of the country until he leaves on friday morning - if not in Penang its self. However we never know what will really happen until we decide to do it or not so it may be all change!
Thanks for reading I hope it isn't too boring for you if you have managed to get this far down. For those of you who are even leaving messages thanks even more! haha x
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