Spring Cleaning at the Girls’ Hostel.

I got to spend my weekend (14th and 15th Nov 2009) at Girls’ Hostel in school. Here in Malaysia, spring cleaning is known as ‘gotong-royong’. It is a physical activity (quite fun but tiring) and a ritual practice among the students who stay in the hostel in order to practice good hygiene.

According to Sarah, the students practice ‘gotong-royong’ in order to make sure that the hostel will always be clean and to maintain the status of a ‘5 star’ hostel.

Sarah and her dorm mates started working early in the morning cleaning their dorms and the surrounding areas. I helped them out too (posing for the camera, most of the time)

Although it was tiring but it was satisfying when we could see that the areas we cleaned was finally neat and tidy.

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