2 Months Voluntary Work Malaysia
I've been living in Malaysia from September to November 2014. Here, I was doing some voluntary work for Durex in order to spread awareness of STIs / STDs, organized by Aiesec. Back then, I honestly didn't really enjoy my time; we haven't had much work to do and lived in the middle of nowhere so it was rather boring than anything else. But looking back to it now, I really appreciate the time. Since we were based in Kuching, which is in Sarawak on the Borneo Island, I had the chance to get to know the "real" local life. This part of Malaysia is not as touristy as the main island. I discovered places that I would have probably never even thought about visiting. We've been to many national parks that were basically jungles, hiked next to monkeys, climbed up steep mountains for hours (partly 90 degrees), saw real-life Orangutans, spotted the rarest jungle flower "Rafflesia", relaxed in natural hot springs, explored fairy caves and of course I was able to eat DURIAN. Other than that I had amazing friends, lots of fun and yea also the fact that most of the locals wanted to take pictures with me or even an autograph didn't as much bother me as I enjoyed feeling like a celebrity :D