Melaka Day 50 – Exploring with Monica and Becca, Maylasian house party

• Rebecca and I left because Steve the hostel owner decided to close the hostel and fumigate. We went to a few other hostels in the area and met up with another solo traveler Rachel.
• We all decided to travel together to Chinatown to get a new place to stay.
• Upon suggestion from our previous hostel owner, we decided to stay in a rather new hostel and we all got a dorm together.
• After setting out bags down we went for a walk around Chinatown and got some lunch at a local food stand. It was rice with noodles and tofu, I got chicken and gave my extra tofu to Rebecca.
• We checked out a few stores and left the area, Rebecca decided she didn’t want to play on the pirate ship so she headed to explore on her own, and Rachel and I set off.
• We walked along the river passing the ship and going all the way to the ocean. Having a great talk, we walked along the coast trying to find a way to get out to the beach.
• We gave up after seeing how far it is and agreed to try the next day, then got slurpees!
• We walked to the big ship that was converted into a museum and played around in there for a while, I climbed up on the ropes ½ way to the top… Rachel tried to figure out how to use my camera.
• We came back to the room, changed and showered, got my laptop and went to the café. There we ran into Rebecca who informed us we were invited to the prime minister of Melaka’s party that evening.
• We stayed in the café all afternoon playing games and fooling around until they served us dinner for free, which wasn’t very good.
• We got changed and boarded a bus to a party we didn’t know where or why we were going.
• Soon we found out it was a party for the opening of a traditional Malaysian house that was going to be used as a museum. We waited for a while and the prime minister arrived. After a few speeches in some language I don’t know I noticed that all the government officials were all not listening and playing on their phones.
• I was explained that it is not rude, it’s accepted.
• After some boring speeches and a strange Malaysian guy putting his arm around me, we had some traditional Malaysian food, and took pictures.
• I was interviewed by the Malaysian Television News about my experience so far.
• We headed back to the hostel where Rebecca ran into her old roommate and her friend. We hung out with them for a while and took some photos by a leaning church.
• We said our goodnights and went to the dorm to sleep.