Arrived safely!

Well I arrived safely on Saturday evening. It was a LONG flight. 8 hours to Singapore, then another hour to Penang. Our hotel is super nice, with great rooms and a wonderful view of the ocean and mainland. My roomie is Amy...and we are the room right next to Natalie and Michele with a door between us, that is always open!
On sunday we all got on a bus and had a tour of the island, we went to the sleeping budda temple, another budda temple. Then to a temple on the mountain that we had to climb up!!! Talk about a good work out. Then we got to experience our first taste of Malya food. Noodles and meat, not too shabby. After that we went to the snake temple (not my favorite) Nat was so brave and held one, and one on her head....got one of those tacky souviner pictures. Then we all came back to the hotel had a bit of a rest and all went out for dinner where again i had Satay and egg noodles. So yummy, i am trying to be adventurous and try different types of foods. For the day with eating I spent about $15 riggits, which is equal to about $5.
Today was our first day at school. Michele and I are actually at the same school. It's huge.....1171 students but they have two shifts. Years 4-6 are in the morning, from 745-115 then year 1-3 are from 145-7pm. Talk about an early morning for us. But at least we are done by 1pm. Which is really good, cause it is HOT here!!! My teacher is away this week, so Michele and I are going to be team teaching this week, and then i will go to a different class next week. The children are adorable. So beautiful. We will be teaching English to one class the whole time, which is nice rather then all different classes, but i guess there are pro's and con's to both if I had different classes i could just re-use my lesson plans. Today basically we just sat around in the library for a few hours, and then sat in on some of the children learning a dance for a school talent show/fundraiser. I have a feeling we are going to be doing alot of that, i don't think they want us in the classroom when we aren't teaching.
After classes today we came back and had a nap, then a little meeting with everyone to see how their day went, and then dinner, and now here i am at the interent cafe.
The time difference is 12 hours, which is nice....easy to remember! The internet cafe is super cheap, 1.50 an hour...so about 50 cents! So i should be able to get onto it often and keep in touch.
Love to all!
Sarah