Thursday, February 14, 2008

So today I got real celery for the first time in 1.5 years! You could find some imported celery in the import store in Bandung, but it was a fortune and came on a boat from Korea or Japan or something. Here you can only buy celery that’s like a herb for soup. This stuff that I just bought was grown in a mountain village. Hopefully we’ll be able to get it more often.
Brynnie has had a mysterious rashy maybe fungal-type thing all over her body for a few days now. Poor kid, she looks rather diseased. This is different than the other spots that she had before-those looked just like chicken pox only weren’t. And just today a new doctor came into the clinic. He is an older gentleman from Finland who hopes to work here and in the villages to provide medical care. He said he thinks he knows what it is but didn’t want to give any medicine just wants to see her again next week. Okay…
Today the kids had International Day at school. Mikah’s class did Indonesia, Christiaan’s class did Mexico and Aidan’s class did Canada. I have to say that Aidan’s class, led by Jeanette Togeretz, did a fabulous presentation. Myself and another Canadian mom put together a little hockey shooting activity. Fun stuff!
Christiaan enjoyed turning 8. We didn’t actually eat cake today. He had so much candy and chocolate at school already… tomorrow is the party and then we will eat chocolate cupcakes. Yes, I still have some flour in my cupboards. I also managed to get some other repackaged flour and threw it in my freezer to kill any eggs that might be in it. Hopefully it tastes okay…







Photo 1 - Aidan informing everyone that Canada has two official languages...
Photo 2 - Christiaan and his class counting to twelve in Spanish
Photo 3 - Mikah and her class all wore traditional sarongs
Photo 4 - Christiaan opening his new playstation game
Photo 5 - I love these early morning photo ops, everyone always looks so stellar!

2 comments:

Pearl said...

Happy 8th Birthday Christiaan. Hope you had a great day! You're probably getting excited to play hockey in your back yard. Congrats Erica & Hugo too. His birthday always reminds me of when we moved onto our property with you. Time flies. Hope Brynne recovers soon. By the way, that Kangaroo probably doesn't each much more than a dog...just have to watch that tail though. (-: Happy Valentine's.

Doulanic said...

Congrats with Christiaan's birthday! I can't get over how much he looks like Hugo. Crazy! I sure hope Brynne gets over whatever it is she's got. She sure seems to get alot of stuff - rash like doesn't she? Take care!