Graduation!

So this day marked the start of the rest of my life, scary I know! However I put that thought to the back of my mind until I got through the ceremony without falling over on the stage! 

We had an early start so I went up to northampton and stayed in my friends new cute apartment. Getting our gowns didn't feel real, all I kept thinking was 'did I really do this'! 

The ceremony was not as boring and as long as I expected which was a relief, meant we had the rest of the day to enjoy! After some photos and a few drinks, the three of us took our parents for a meal (well they treated us) at cromwells cottage a lovely little pub on the outskirts of Northampton. It was a lovely day to celebrate, but also scary because it's our entrance to the real world! 

Malaysia

 I got the chance to stay in Malaysia for a week back in June and I have to say I didn't find it as impressive as I was hoping for. We stayed in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Melaka, as we worked our way down the mainland. 

I think the reason I didn't find it as impressive was due to the fact that is wasn't much different from other cities you can visit. In Penang we visited a few temples and then took a walk around to see all of the street art, they were pretty cool! 

Kuala Lumpur was my favourite out of the three but that was probably because it was more westernised, so along with seeing the palace and the Batu Caves (definitely worth a visit!) we spent time eating in Nandos (yes nandos, we all got very excited about this!) and drinking prosecco in nice restraints, shopping in China town (they offered us a lot of 'real fakes') and we even ended up in the cinema watching the minion movie one night, it was a strange feeling leaving that cinema, it felt more like we were back in England, despite the weather (obviously). 

In Melaka we got a tour of some of the city on decorated Trishaws, myself and Yaz went on the frozen one, but there were all kinds from Hello Kitty to The lion King! We then decided to visit the 'best' water park in the area, after going to one to find a pool in the back of the hotel with was 'shut for maintenance'! The 'best' Waterpark there turned out the be the worst we had visited, on arrival we were told that 2 rides were shut, out of a choice of a lot we didn't think this was too bad. Upon entering however we came to realise that the only open rides and pools were the kids pool, four rides, on which you had to pay to buy a dingy to go on, and the wave pool which didn't quite have enough water in for waves and was were an off cloudy colour! A lesson was learnt that day: always research waterparks in different countries before hand!