Off to the Batu Caves -sacred Hindi limestone caves about 30 minutes by train from KL. The train trip was comfortable, cheap (30 cents ) and on time! We all got off the train and headed out onto the cave entrance. Before we entered the caves Jamie Dorrington gathered is altogether to talk to us about the temple and it's customs. He told us that women were meant to be covered up and walk in a respectable distance behind the males. So he gathered the boys togethe...

Who would have thought we would have had such an adventure just catching the train? Our goal for the day was to break the students in gently and take them to a harmless shopping centre. The first challenge was to get them to buy their own tickets, a task easily accomplished. The next step was to wait on the platform, board the train and then get off at the correct stop, making sure we adults didn't leave any students behind. Every student had an assigned student...

We arrived in Kuala Lumpur and caught a bus into the city. The YMCA was about a three hundred metre walk from the depot. We quickly got to our rooms to freshen up for dinner. It was about 5pm but our tummies were telling us that it was dinner time at home. We walked to the monorail station to get to Bukit Bintang, the market and shops were bustling. Our long snaky line of 39, all wearing school shirts wove its way from the monorail to a street filled entirely wit...

We made it to Malaysia. And we're all pretty impressed with how humid it is. We are also impressed at the fact that we can buy cans of drink for $00.60. We've just bordered a bus that has a sign demanding that we do not spit. On our way to KL. how exciting..