Somehow, someway, we enjoyed quite the respite in the middle of the week. Due to a Hindu holiday, Thaipusam, the government announced a public holiday. So basically at the last minute (Monday afternoon), it was announced that we would have Wednesday off.
Nothing like a holiday to break up the middle of the week. So in typical fashion for a "snow day," we got on our bathings suits, headed to the grandparents and had a nice afternoon swim to cool off from the heat and humidity.
After a delightful evening meal (spaghetti) with grandparents, we will prepare for the remainder of the week (only two days). It is somewhat of a running joke that only on rare occasions do students attend classes for five days in a given week at ISKL. Alas, next week is scheduled for a full 5 days. And there might not be too many unusual holidays that might be announced at the last minute. Sigh. Oh well, then we'll get a 4 day weekend for Chinese New Year the first week of February.
Our other travail that made the holiday nice was the fact that 2/3rds of our electricity is out in our house. Someone came today to look at it, brought it up to 2/3rds, and hopefully tomorrow they'll check one of the 3 lines coming into the house and get us going.
8 comments:
that snow looks colddddddddd!
i think you should title your blog, Everythings Better in Malaysia...
s a r a h
took me a wee while to get what you meant by a "snow day". cause here we don't get days off school because of snow... ;) but mind you, winter in finland's lousy this year, barely below freezing and hardly any snow :) hot days in the pool seem so lovely!
ok i was going to write something then sarah cracked me up! ah...castor. kevin JUST made a comment that puerto ricans must struggle to fill a 5-day school week as there are about 15 holidays between november and february. jackson gets every single monday off in January!
Dear Doug and family,
Congrats on your move to Malaysia! Wow! You guys are adventurous, which is great.
Let's keep up with each other- kknapp@troy.edu
God bless you guys!
-Kenyon Knapp-
HI!!!!!!!!!!! Mr. W. i have missed you soooo much- i hope you and your family have settled in well- claire found your blog(or at least she is taking credit for it) so i had to post a comment just to say how much we all miss you.!!!
-lots of luv,
Bridget
So glad that Forrest got your e-mail. I had been wondering how you were doing.
Your kids look happy and healthy--which makes mom happy, too!
Weather looks lovely there, but pictures always take away the humidity. However, when it is zero here, I'll take the humidity!
Jeannette
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