Garth and I got the following email entitled 'It's Time To Order Worm Pills' at school this last week. We opted to go for it for our whole family. We will get the pills delivered to us.
"For all the new staff who are wondering what this means: This is a highly recommended treatment every 6 months. Why? We have the possibility of picking up many different types of worms while walking barefoot on infected ground, eating undercooked or contaminated food, and those that work with children are at a higher risk as children may not have good handwashing technique. The treatment is easy, painless and cheap! Adults and children over 2 years old take one pill and it covers you for all types of worms for 6 months. The pill can be chewed if a child cannot swallow pills. The cost is $1rm per pill. The only contraindication is: If you are pregnant or nursing do not take it."
August 12
Heard two very sad stories from a visiting Indonesian missionary today at church. They both had to do with the extent that families and in particular parents will go to in following their religion when they are faced with a sick child. In Kalamantan (sp?), Indonesia, a certain tribe will wrap the very sick child (one for whom there seems no chance of recovery) in leaves, deprive them of water even though the child has a fever and is suffering from diareah (sp? ie "the runs") and put the child on top of an ant hill to appease their gods, There the child will die. The other story reportedly happened sometime within the last two weeks here in Penang. With this particular family they had a sick 3-year-old and their religion has them (all of them: Parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and even family friends) pile on top of the sick child as a way to have that child healed. This child was suffocated and died. It made international news (the missionary saw it on the flight back from the U.S.) although I have yet to read it here in any local paper. How sad and so lacking in hope.
August 10
For a peanut butter and jam sandwich, ants in Canada prefer the jam. The ants in Malaysia go after the peanut butter. We were eating outside and that was what they went for
August 3
August 1
- there are many and varied ways of protecting property here. The scariest are really vicious sounding dogs that we are still not used to here. We are encouraged to carry a stick with us when we go walking (although usually we don't) but Aimee showed me the way she vouches for her safety and that is to raise her arm up high and shake it at dogs. It did work too for at least one dog we walked past today. To the right is the electric gate into our garage and front door. Below left is some barbed wire "disguised" in some bushes around a home. Below right is some broken glass embedded in a cement wall around a home. Both pictures are taken on our walk home from Dalat.
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