Hello again! Sorry about that, an influx of children prevented me finishing my post.
We're no longer in Sukau. Whilst there we invaded a wedding, amongst other things, which was really very interesting. It seemed like the entire village had turned out in force and somehow all the hungry mouths were fed. Imagine having to cook rice, chicken, beef, prawns and vegetables for a whole village at your child's wedding... I would guess people would stop having kids but that's not the case as the average family size here is much larger than in the U.K.. Our cook at Danau Girang for example has 15 brothers and sisters! I remember our family being chaotic enough at times with two!
The bride and groom were dressed in lilac, silky outifts and turned up after having made their vows at the mosque. They then made their way onto a bench on stage where family members would bring blessings for maybe two hours.
I'm currently sat having lunch in Kota Kinabalu, having travelled here yesterday with the KOCP team. There's a bazaare at the International School tomorrow and we're helping to translate some posters about elephants and orangutans. We've also agreed to do face-painting. Poor kids. Before we can start to panic about transforming five-year-olds into tigers though we have sixty animal masks to cut around, so I'll get back to that now.
Apparently Stephen Fry was sat in a restaurant two door down from us last night, but we didn't realise because we're not 'Twitter-addicts', whatever that means. Anyone who can shed light on this new internet phenomenon - feel free to leave a comment or something!
Rachel x
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