I have figured out how to use a taxi successfully. Without the app on my phone, it proves very difficult, firstly to converse because of language differences, and secondly often the meter is not used and you can be charged pretty well anything and thirdly locating taxis in a city of about 6 million can seem impossible.
The Myteksi app is invaluable but I am still getting used to the mad traffic in KL. The motorbikes which buzz in and out sometimes within centimetres of the car and the virtually non existent travel distance between cars, the road and building construction which is everywhere, the heat and the dust.
Inside the taxi there can be challenges too with seat belts that often don't fasten and taxi drivers who like me, have no clue where I live!
I have tried to speak Malay a little but people seem to understand my English better, even though it is a foreign language. Also I am a person who likes to use my hands when speaking and pointing with one's forefinger is considered rude. Using my thumb to point seems aukward to me. I have a long way to go, terima kasih to all those who are teaching me. By the time I learn, two years will be up and we will have to leave.
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