Upon Arrival

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We were taken to the “penthouse” and shown our rooms. The flat is designed on two levels and is indeed huge. We didn’t feel so lucky however once we got a look at the bathroom. Each shower had a large bucket underneath it; Cathy proceeded to climb inside one for various humorous photographs. It was only after that we discovered that this was the douche bucket.#

I found it impossible to sleep without Toby beside me, and the hard mattress and lack of duvet certainly didn’t help matter. Eventually I stole a duvet from Michael’s room. He is the boss’s son and was coming to stay with us for a few days to check that we settled in OK; however, he had left his room vacant for that night (fool!). I stayed up for most of the night pacing the lounge in some distress; despite my exhaustion, I was too unsettled by my monumentous upheaval to be able to sleep. This was a problem as I had to start work at 8 in the morning (yes, we had only arrived in KL at 10 at night, but were expected to start training the very next day). Eventually I was able to fall asleep at about 5am on the sofa by pretending that the back of it was Toby pressed up against me.

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