She lives in Melbourne now with 4 kids, and we still take exchange students in. We’ve had people from Japan, our first exchange student was a girl from New Zealand! They come from all over the world – they come here, and when it’s time to leave, they’re crying because this has become a home for them, even with all the little fights that have happened.”
“You have 7 kids. Why did you want more staying at your place?”
“Actually in Malaysia, you go to school and speak malay, and you come back home and speak malay – and in between all that, you’re expected to know English. I wanted my kids to learn more; I wanted them to know about the other cultures because ultimately Malaysia is a cosmopolitan – what is the point of living in such a multicultural place and not learning about each culture? So when the exchange students came, I’d make a deal with them – I’d say I would speak to them in Malay, but they had to speak to my kids in English.” – Humans of Kuala Lumpur
Photostory by Mushamir Mustafa
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(This post was first published on May 4th 2015)
