I am tired. Very very tired. So tired that I actually chose to sit in my bed with my laptop and book, rather than go out and explore Little India (yes, of course we have a little India. Two actually:)).
The last days have been busy and eventful. Lots of thoughts and impressions have been registered. Many not processed yet. But I am working on it. To give a few headlines:
- The big news came yesterday. Namely, the location of the community centre I will be running. Putrajaya. That's basically a Federal Territory, 25km from KL. Good news: it's close enough to the city to be able to see people and do stuff in the weekend. Yet it's sort of its own community, so it will not feel like the big city (so far I reached the conclusion that I would be ok with not living in KL:)). Bad news: the centre is completely new, meaning I will be the first person there, having to set up everything from scratch. I am however trying to see a positive part in that also: I will be able to install my own system there, which will definitely be much better than any other system could ever be! :) Also, a massive selling point: it's much easier to travel everywhere from KL, so logistics will definitely be easier! 1st September is moving day!
- I am teaching now every day - I generally run a one hour session and assist two of my colleagues for another 2 or 3 hours. It's massively energising, tiring and fun at the same time! I am still figuring things out - particularly the personal development part I found very challenging. These kids are really cool, and yet some of them are so shy that you can barely hear them when they open their mouths (or if they open their mouths). My main achievement for today was that I made a Chinese girl speak...she was brought up in a full Chinese community, so not only does she not speak English, she barely understands Bahasa also! Tragic! And yet, she now brings us candy every day, today she sat at lunch with us (the first day she moved away from our table because she was afraid we would make her speak) and she spontaneously hugged me on the hall. Anyways, my point is, it's very difficult to do all sorts of cool confidence boosting exercises when people don't get what you're saying :) There is a way though! So I will just search on until I find it! :)
- I discovered that Malaysian men can dance. Very very well. That is a very positive thing about this country, and one that made my yesterday night very good! :) (I do realise my sample so far is not big enough to generalise but I will keep things on the positive side, and just believe that to be an absolute truth)
- Indian clothes are lovely! I intend to purchase more of those! :)