It’s been a few days since my last update…
*Aidan’s trip to the dentist was a relief for him. The dentist said that we could wait until Aidan’s big teeth are in before cutting the skin. In the meantime we can hope that Aidan will fall and bump his mouth and it will break on its own. Considering how often Aidan trips and falls it is a miracle that it hasn’t happened yet.
*Hugo worked a few hours a day for three days last week. This week he’ll start by working for the full morning and see how that goes. The lovely rash is gone so that’s a good sign that he’s well on the way to recovery.
*I went to see Rita on Thursday and she is doing better. She’s just a bit behind Hugo in the healing process. I actually brought Ken and Shirley Keeler to her house so they could see how the locals live here. Ken is on the board of directors of MAF Canada and their daughter and her husband are teaching at HIS right now. Kathryn is Mikah’s teacher. Then we went out for supper with them while Jeanette Togeretz babysat our kids. That was a rare treat.
*On Friday morning my neighbour Janna and I drove on her motorbike to Jayapura. It’s about a 45 minute ride. We had booked tickets to go to Singapore next month and the lady in the MAF office misunderstood us and we ended up having to pay for our tickets at the Garuda Airlines office in Jayapura. We also needed a few names changed as they were misspelled on the reservation. We had to wait for one hour for them to process our tickets and payments… ugghhh… We are both going to Singapore for medical reasons and decided it would be fun to travel together. I am taking Christiaan for his annual hearing test along with new ear molds and some equipment repairs. I am also going to get my eyes checked. The clinic that Christiaan is going to is the flagship clinic of Hearing Solution which is where we went in Bandung. Our medical insurance recommended we go to Singapore as opposed to Jakarta and I have to admit that I am happy about that. The medical system in Singapore has an incredible reputation. Anyways, Janna and I made the drive without anything eventful happening. We did pass a motorcycle accident on the way and we watched some guys pick up one of the victims, a man, by his arms and legs and move him to the side of the road so that traffic could keep going. The man’s helmet had come off during the crash and he had a bleeding head wound and when they carried him his head lolled down. No thought for the possibility of a spinal injury or the like… So passing that while riding a motorbike was a little disconcerting. In Canada we may have stopped to offer some assistance, but here, unless we are directly involved, we don’t stop. Doing that could have some weird effects, such as suddenly we are responsible for hospital bills… We passed the ambulance a couple minutes later down the road.
*Wayne (see previous post) and Clarence Togeretz successfully flew the completed aircraft back to Medan this past week. This was the airplane that Hugo and the guys had installed a new avionics package into. It was about 18 hours of flying!