Arrival Orientation

After a 13 hour flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong and a 4 hour flight from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur we had finally arrived in Malaysia. I was so excited to be there I wanted to see my host family already, but we had yet another orientation to go through. On our way to the hotel we stopped for our first meal in Malaysia, McDonald's. We traveled all the way to the other side of the world just to have fries and some McNuggets.
At the hotel I got to my room and saw that I had a beautiful view of the city of Kuala Lumpur. I was able to see the Petronas Towers and the Kuala Lumpur Tower. The Petronas Towers are the largest Twin Towers in the world and the Kuala Lumpur Tower is the highest viewpoint available to the public.

In the orientation we learned much of the same things that we learned in Los Angeles and frankly it was getting a little repetitive. There were students from all over the world everyone speaking different languages. The only students I understood were the ones from Spain. Luckily I had a Spanish roommate that I could easily communicate with. Although everyone could speak and understand English, not everyone was fluent and would have some difficulty getting there point across. There was only one from Argentina and one from Costa Rica and being from Central America, I became good friends with these two. 

Jose (Costa Rica), Valentina (Argentina), Me (U.S/ El Salvador)

On our second day of our orientation we were taken on a tour of Kuala Lumpur. Our first stop was the Central Market. The Central Market in KL was founded in 1888 and is a landmark for Malaysian culture and heritage. The market is seperated into sections. In one section you will find Indian products and in another you will see Chinese