Brief visit

Hullo...? Haven't been here in a while.

I'm just dropping in, as i received an email from the "xang team" reminding me that once in my life i had a blog here. It got lost some where though.

I've just been reading over some of the last posts. How very funny. How very strange.

I had no idea at the time. And really, what do i know now--except about what had past. If i tried to write much of anything about the present or, heaven forbid, the future, how im sure of would smile at myself a year from now.

But it is good to write. Though i have no time for it just now.

Now, I am simply reviving my sight with one breath only, just enough to keep it alive a bit longer. I dont think i will really continue this blog with many real postings. But i dont want it to go away just yet.

So there it is. I have posted once again.

in . . . . 7 hours i will be boarding hte plane -Lord willing! (there have been such mix ups, what with the huge snow storms in New England & all.)

im freakin nervous! but excited.

2 monthes is a long time. oh, what a state to be in, excited about being where you are traveling to, but knowing that you are going to miss the place you are leaving. both wonderfull. but a bit meloncholy.

I will post pictures! :) lots.

good heavens! i never write any more.

Well, on Wednesday Anna & i went to the orphanige for hte day. have i mentioned the orphanige yet? Compassion home. we visited it twice before & got to know every one a bit. theres just about 13 kids, & its run by Terisa (who is a little old Philipino woman) & her husband George who is indian.

So we got up bright & early & went to the orphanige for all day to held with what ever was needed. so hald the kids go to school in the morning, then come home & the rest go for hte afternoon.  Well we were really more guests than helpers im afriad. we whatched Terisa make chicken curry for lunch, had lunch, took a nap (under Terisa's insistance), had tea, then finally were of some help with the smaller children & their home work. it turned out quite well though.

So in the morning Anna & i had a good laugh among our selves. Terisa was making lunch & had to squeeze the coconut milk out of the coconut into a bowl.. as she was doing this she spilled some of the coconut into the bowl of milk &, this sweet old chirstian lady, exclaimed "Oh shit." (only she said "sheet.") a few minutes later, the exact same thing happened, only this time Yohan (one of hte young boys at the orphanige) was standing there at the sink with her, & out of this sweet old lady comes "sheet."

It was quite funny! gradually we've discovered that certain words that we would never use in the U.S. dont mean anything here. Hell, too. good grief, what is my language going to be like when i return!!! Ha!

We're doing well.

I think i like Malaysia.

Im leaving it in lessthan a week, along with my family. :(

hey, im off to the operating room!

. . . well for the first time ever, & much earlier in my life that i'd have expected, im goin to have surgery.

yes, i rather laughed when the doctor told us it'd be necessary. it all seems so abserd.

that sounds so dramatic! its not much, really. i simply have an extra bone in my ankle, an os-trigonum aparently & its been cuasing much iritation especially with my dancing so im going this morning to have it taken out. : P

i've got to go now, as morning trafic heading toward the city is purte insanity & we need to be there by 8 o'clock. i will write more when i return. say, next i write ill be on crutches -now this is going to be amusing im sure.

Philip, Anna, Ivy, Claire, Mary, Laura & JERRY! :) at the zoo, by the most beaurtiful tree i think ive ever seen! there were trees like this in Jamaica. Mary & the Ape! : P my dear sister & crazy brother on the buss on the buss on the way to the zoo. me & laura-loo, & there's Jerry on the corner. :) ooh, this is me & ivy on christmas day. this was quite some time ago, ivy's 6th birthday party. what a funny group of people. :)

So, just in case all y'all are forgetting what we look like. . .  please dont. : P

ill try to post more pictures in the furture (now that i know how to). becuase they're great.