After a week of constant posts I have been rather neglectful....
Ice has been doing great. I gave her this past week off of work so that she could get her energy back. Yesterday I went to visit her and her husband and talk to them about the infection Ice has and what it all means. I also brought meds for her husband to take because he could re-infect her. Thankfully he was quite willing to take the medication. I just hope they listened to me when I explained how important it was that they take the meds for the full two weeks even if they feel fine after only one week. Then I explained to them that there may be a possibility that they would never have children. They took this news rather stoically. I do believe that had anyone one of us Westerners been told this kind of news, we would react emotionally. The people here live with such hardship and instead of fighting it or trying to alleviate it, they often just simply accept it. That is why Ice did not go to the doctor in spite of having symptoms of PID for a while already.
We are settling into the school routine again. The kids are happy to be back for the most part. They all have great teachers which is a blessing. Although one of Mikah’s teachers is still waiting for her Visa to come through. In the meantime, the grade 5 teacher is teaching the classes she will be teaching.
Hugo is headed to Kalimantan tomorrow. Almost one year ago the program in Kalimantan received their first Cessna Caravan. Now that plane needs some inspections, installations, and repairs on its avionics systems. So they asked if Hugo could come to do the job. It’s a lot cheaper for him to go then for one of the guys from Nampa to come out. Lucky guy... He will be gone for just over one week.
This past Monday was a national holiday celebrating Indonesia's independance. So we went to the beach with our church. We decided to go to the beach we always like to visit as it is really the best one and the other church members had never been there before. Of course, we had another cultural experience. There is a guy who is controlling all the boat drivers and making them ask more money. There is one man who will do it for less, the man who actually owns the beach we visit, but he wasn’t around when we came. So we were forced to wait a long time and then pay more. We arrived at the beach to find that there were already about 100 Indonesians there! We have never ever seen that many people at that beach before. In spite of it all, we had a nice time with our fellow church members.
Ice has been doing great. I gave her this past week off of work so that she could get her energy back. Yesterday I went to visit her and her husband and talk to them about the infection Ice has and what it all means. I also brought meds for her husband to take because he could re-infect her. Thankfully he was quite willing to take the medication. I just hope they listened to me when I explained how important it was that they take the meds for the full two weeks even if they feel fine after only one week. Then I explained to them that there may be a possibility that they would never have children. They took this news rather stoically. I do believe that had anyone one of us Westerners been told this kind of news, we would react emotionally. The people here live with such hardship and instead of fighting it or trying to alleviate it, they often just simply accept it. That is why Ice did not go to the doctor in spite of having symptoms of PID for a while already.
We are settling into the school routine again. The kids are happy to be back for the most part. They all have great teachers which is a blessing. Although one of Mikah’s teachers is still waiting for her Visa to come through. In the meantime, the grade 5 teacher is teaching the classes she will be teaching.
Hugo is headed to Kalimantan tomorrow. Almost one year ago the program in Kalimantan received their first Cessna Caravan. Now that plane needs some inspections, installations, and repairs on its avionics systems. So they asked if Hugo could come to do the job. It’s a lot cheaper for him to go then for one of the guys from Nampa to come out. Lucky guy... He will be gone for just over one week.
This past Monday was a national holiday celebrating Indonesia's independance. So we went to the beach with our church. We decided to go to the beach we always like to visit as it is really the best one and the other church members had never been there before. Of course, we had another cultural experience. There is a guy who is controlling all the boat drivers and making them ask more money. There is one man who will do it for less, the man who actually owns the beach we visit, but he wasn’t around when we came. So we were forced to wait a long time and then pay more. We arrived at the beach to find that there were already about 100 Indonesians there! We have never ever seen that many people at that beach before. In spite of it all, we had a nice time with our fellow church members.
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