Yeah, it seems crazy but I've already been in Malaysia for 50 days! To celebrate, I've made a list of 50 things I love about this country. Enjoy, and here's to another great 311 or so days here

Best of Malaysia in 50 Days

1. How inexpensive food is. You can buy a full (and delicious) meal for $1
2. Orange juice tastes like oranges, not concentrate
3. Palm trees on palm treees on palm trees
4. Sunsets
5. Roti canai: this doughy bread that's so yummy!
6. If you're hungry at 2 AM, not only will 10 restaurants be open, but they'll all be packed.
7. Being able to walk down the street and see a mosque, Buddhist temple, and Hindu temple
8. 7-story malls
9. Long car rides
10. MY MALAY HOST FAMILY (love them♥)
11. The metric system
12. White Coffee
13. Indian clothing
14. Entire aisles in supermarkets devoted to chicken nuggets
15. Eating rice at almost every meal
16. Tamil and Malay soap operas that are strangely addictive even though I have no idea what they're saying
17. The British accents people have when they speak English
18. Sleeping in school is completely acceptable
19. HARI RAYA (lots more about this in a later post)
20. Seeing the mountains on the horizon
21. Walking into a store and seeing people wearing saris, people wearing baju kurung, and people wearing short shorts.
22. The Perak state song
23. the stray cats that wander around my school
24. Bangles!
25. Small adorable Malaysian children
26. One Direction family sing alongs in the car
27. Absolutely ridiculous public service announcements on the radios
28. 5 hour naps
29. Sweet Malaysian boys that give me flowers
30. Kampungs (villages)
31. Swimming in waterfalls
32. Asian hipsters
33. Eating almost everything with your hands! It's a lot easier.
34. Fresh fruit. Bananas, mangosteen, pomelo, pineapple...
35. Salam'ing people
36. Being salam'ed by younger kids
37. Cow crossings
38. Rain and thunderstorms that shake the house
39. Tea
40. Almost no one goes to bed before 2 AM
41. Classmates applauding when I try to speak Malay
42. My school is Hogwarts... 4 houses, prefects, a headmaster and all
43. The family of cats that lives behind the house that meow adorably all night
44. Traffic lights that say how much longer you have to wait
45. The little lizards that are always on the walls
46. How big of a role religion has on society
47. Impossibly blue skies
48. Smiling at people that stare at you and making them smile back
49. All the people that have made these 50 days amazing. Seriously, so many kind and welcoming people here :)
50. How much I've grown already and how excited I am for the rest of the year