Melaka

We left for Melaka last Wednesday morning (Nov 3rd, Mom's birthday). Brianna sat in our car.
We arrived at about 11a.m. and met Charis and her family to go to the Maritime Museum.

The Maritime Museum itself is a replica of the 'Flora de La Mar', a Portuguese ship that sank off the coast of Melaka while on its way to Portugal, carrying loot plundered from Melaka. Work on the replica started in early 1990 and it was opened to the public in 1994. The Maritime Museum was officially opened by the Prime Minister Dato Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on June 13, 1994.

They had lots of ship models and old coins.

These were used to load cannons. Yeah, I know they kinda look like meatballs.
And I'm hungry...

(left to right) Eunice, me, Brianna, and Charis:)

We checked into our hotel in the late evening and went for a swim. My parents didn't swim, as usual.

Eunice, Brianna, me, and Melissa:)

Bill Gothard came to Malaysia this year. It was like he suddenly popped out of the screen.



Commit (the program for girls) started the next day. We girls all had to wear a white or maroon colored shirt and khaki colored skirt, as that was the dress code.

The Commit core team this year: Michelle Reed (I don't know her married name), Hannah Joy Burnett, Caitlin Marie Miller, and Mary Bethany Tullis.

During workshop time, we got to choose a section to participate in. There was knitting, games, card making, drawing, doing hair, and drama.

Eunice, Brianna, and I decided to go for drama this year.

When you chose drama, you had to perform a skit on the last day.

This year's skit was about a girl named Mary Jo (Natasha Pedito) 'giving pieces of her heart' away to all sorts of boys.

These were the boy characters: Worship Leader Larry (Sara Ong), Good Listener Lewis (Brianna), Popular Peter (Jia Wen) and his fan Patrick (Retasya), Famous Justin Bieber (me), and the friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend on facebook (Celeste Tan).

Well, I absolutely HATE Justin Bieber and I saw this as an opportunity to make fun of him.

I'll show you the video once my friend sends it to me.

I had to sing "Baby, baby, baby, oh..." during the skit and when I flung my head, my cap fell off.

Of course, the skit was HILARIOUS.

Anyway, on Thursday, we girls got to wear pants and go to a forest where the Alert Cadet (the program for boys) went every day.

We played lots of games and got real wet, sweaty, and dirty.

I don't have any photos to show, though.

On Thursday evening, we had dinner with Mr. Gothard. Close to 300 people came.

We had to book almost the whole restaurant and Holiday Inn!

Just a few of us. (left to right) David Waller, George Mattix, Bill Gothard, Robert Staddon, Mom, Eunice, Aunty Chris, Ethan, Brianna, Dad, and me.

I look so weird in a skirt...

Eunice sleeps just like my dad. It's like she's deep in thought...

A few families wrote an appreciation letter to Mr. Gothard. We put all of them into a file and gave it to Mr. Gothard on the last day.

This is ours. Yeah, I know it's got quite a few smudges and Mom looks like she's got a huge mole.

We came back from Melaka last Saturday. Hannah Burnett sat in our car. She and I talked quite a lot while Eunice was sitting between us, snoring away...



Hannah and me

-Eliza