Malaysia - Day 13

Day 13 - Friday 28 September:

I slept like a log after taking a couple of cold & flu tablets, as Jesse & Chris were up for several hours trying to tire Jesse out so he could sleep through the pain from his ears.

We had breakfast at 9am - the boys had left some bread and peanut butter for us.  Then we started working on our presentation for the International Youth Mission Night - this had was set aside for our preparation.  We spoke to Clarice in the church office who unlocked the chapel for us to practice.  One of the security guards helped us set up the keyboard and a fold back speaker and I quickly learned Waltzing Matilda.  We organised who was playing what parts, what volunteers we still needed, and the powerpoint.  We did a couple of run-throughs and called it a day.

In the meantime Jesse went to the doctors and got his ears looked at. He had the consultation, got prescriptions for eardrops, antibiotics and painkillers for RM60 and was back in about 30-45 minutes!

For lunch we were in for a treat - we had lunch with the bishop of the LCM! We went to a Chinese Restaurant (a proper one). I didn't like most of the food but it was a wonderful experience. The bishop was remarkable at remembering our names and what we were getting up to.  Cameron, Jesse and Dan had a competition about eating the hot chillis. They were very hot by our standards, and Jesse and Dan managed 4 small slithers each. Then Terrance said his 7 year old daughter eats them. Haha!

We went back to the Luther Centre and discussed the extra props we would need for our presentation and wrote a shopping list. Chris & Vicki decided to try to local shops within walking distance while Zen took the rest of us to a shopping mall.  We walked to the train station and caught it into KLCC.  As it was an upmarket mall we didn't find anything we needed. As we were discussing alternate shopping centres Terrance appeared and came up with an idea. We walked about 115-20 minutes taking the sky bridge to the Pavillion shopping centre and we went to the mall the next building down.

After splitting up and wandering around for about 1.5 hours we met up again. In this time I only bought a paid of sandles. I was getting tired. For dinner we went to a food court. The own of the building restored the area and then paid several of the top food sellers to put their shops there to attract people - an ingenious idea!  After dinner Chloe & Erin still wanted to shop so Zen and Terrance stayed with them while the rest of us walked back to KLCC.  We stopped outside the shopping centre and took photos of the Petronas Towers at night, and the beautiful light and water display at the base.  We caught the train back to tour station (the busy one just after 10pm as all of the shops closed). By our station, though, we all had our own seats as the train was almost empty.  We were proud of making it back by ourselves.



The Luther Centre was busy with activity as several youth groups were already there setting up their booths ready for tomorrow.  The Sunway Youth were there and we chatted for a bit - it was nice to recognise people!