After a night of broken sleep eventually it was time to get up. I had a shower, which was almost cold, but given the temperature and humidity in the bathroom (no exhaust fans) it was just what I needed. However, trying to dry off and get dressed was another problem.
The bathrooms in Malaysia are called wet bathrooms. Their showers do not have screens or curtains around them, and so the floor/sink/toilet all get wet.
We had breakfast of sandwiches and yoghurt before beginning on our library project preparation. We spent about 30-45 minutes going through all of the donated books to check for writing in them, damage and language, before commencing on covering them all in plastic. We had about an hour break for lunch (barbeque pork with rice, yum!) and it was about 3.30pm by the time we finished. A few of the youth from the Luther House Church were around to help us with our tasks. We then packed all of the books into boxes ready to take with us to Pengkalan Hulu on Tuesday, where the library is situated.
At about 5.30pm we headed off to go shopping and have dinner. We went to Times Square Mall, which is huge (well, by our standards). It's an 11-storey building, with the majority of the stores on levels 1 - 5. It also includes a theme park and a bowling alley. I ended up buying a new bag (RM40), sunglasses (RM10) and a Guess (totally real =P) watch (RM45). While Chloe & Erin were taking their time choosing glasses one of the salesmen tried to pick me up - he asked for my Facebook!! It was hilarious. And he didn't even ask me himself, he did it via a friend.
We all met up at 8.30pm and went for dinner. We didn't stay out very late after that and were mostly asleep by around 10.30 - 11pm (this is considered early for Malaysia - they work on different times here), as we were getting up relatively early Wednesday morning for our long drive north.
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