I take it back...

Ok, I take it back, KL is not a particularily multi cultural place and Thailand is once again the most fab place to be a backpacker! People of different races may live here in KL but I would not feel comfortable living here! I am so fed up of standing out in a crowd. All i want is for people to look at me and just see another person, and for them not to even be interested enough to look. I am tired of always being whistled and hissed at for attention. I do not want men on motorbikes to shout at me as they go by and i might kill the next man who tells me he loves me the moment he sees me!!!

Why is my white skin so interesting? Does my blonde hair actually make me any different? I don't mind little kids pinching me or hiding behind their mums and peering at me because i look dfferent. I dont even mind women who look at me because they do it in a friendly way and don't generally ask me anything rude, they are just interested in where i'm from and what i'm doing here just as i am interested in them and their lives. But i am so tired of men pestering me and who think it is ok to talk to me and treat me differently from the women from their own culture. And this isn't just Malaysia, it has been all through my travels. Sometimes it feels like men don't see just a women, they see a white women, a foreigner on her own. They see $$$ signs and casual sex.

I am so ready to be back in a properly multi-cultural place. London rocks because i honestly don't think anyone even sees what race anyone is anymore because we are all races and all Londoners. But maybe i am sadly mistaken, because i am a white girl in london with friends from all over the world. Maybe it is different for other races living there. I hope not - because racism and stereotyping due to race/ethnicity is the stupidest thing! Maybe we are defined by the culture we are brought up in but this is not defined by the colour of our skin.

I can't wait to get to australia, I'm very excited to get back to normality- a job and a flat. And also to a culture i am familiar with. I have loved travelling, and i know i will do it again, but it is hard work being surrounded all the time with the unfamiliar. Five months has been enough, i feel tired and ready to get back to reality!