Update

Good news - after 8 days of painting, Tim is finished!! Hooray! With 11' high ceilings and all sorts of trimwork to cut in around, it took a lot longer than we anticipated when we started this project. Next time I think we'll only tackle one room at a time instead of starting three! Anyway, it looks great but I still have a few things to do like touch ups where I goofed, trimwork around the kitchen window and some freehand painting for the border. If that doesn't look good, I'll search for wallpaper border when I'm back in Canada.

Today is also the first nice day we've had in over a week. Now the sun has finally peaked out and I think it will be hot. With the nice weather outside today, I'm thinking a kayak trip to Rat Island would be in order. A few nights ago, we experienced a tremendous wind and rain storm that blew over trees and took roofs off the shanty homes. Part of the elementary school roof was also lifting but the contractor was here and managed to fix it. Lately with the cool, rainy weather we haven't been turning on any A/C.

Kaleb and Annie are enjoying their travels in Canada. Annie landed in Regina on Saturday to be spoiled at Nana and Papa's house for a few days. Today both are in Lumsden with old school friends til Sunday. They've enjoyed Tim Horton's food, Old Navy shopping and some Canadian TV shows.

For the past two days, I have spent time at Adventist Hospital, watching how the Malaysians provide healthcare. Everyone registers at a main desk - either brand new patient or follow-up appt. You get a number for your appt and then proceed to the clinic. When your # pops up on the digital sign at the doctor's clinic, its your turn to see the doctor. They move a lot of people through in any given day. There is no waiting for weeks for CT scans, MRI's, ultrasounds, etc. In fact, yesterday my doctor ordered a bone density scan and gave me an 8 am appt for today! We will have the results this afternoon in my follow-up appt. And there is no referral system to specialists either. If you want to see one, you call yourself and make an appt.

The contractor is here to put new tiles in back boy's bedroom. That will create a lot of dust, I'm sure! His next job will be to lay new tiles in our ensuite, which I'm both excited about and dreading. Excited for the new earthtone tiles that will match other things in our bathroom but dreading the huge mess it will make and all the clean-up afterwards. He's supposed to be finished by the time we fly away but he's already days behind in many of the campus projects. I have to keep remembering that we are on Malaysian time!!