The best laid plans...

My Mum and cousin Janice (cousin Valdon's mother) arrived last week - on the second day my Mum fell in our garden and broke her hip. So after two ambulance rides and an operation she has been in hospital in Achim for the last week. She is doing OK and gaining German vocabulary and, more importantly, cultural competences daily.
So I am preparing lessons for you all on how to call an ambulance in English, how to describe where it hurts etc. Whilst searching for exciting activities connected with accidents, I found this site which also has very imteresting stuff about the Gulf oil spill:
www.michellehenry.fr/cata.htm#oilGM

And here is a 'before' photo, of a very happy afternoon...

Tuesday in Borneo

Well! Just got back from a most exciting time.
We hired a bus and transported all the children from Riko's village plus sundry adults to the Aquarium. Here is a small group we managed to get to stand still long enough to snap. Many of these children have never been to Kota Kinabalu before, let alone an aquarium and science discovery centre!
They loved it. Wish Jörg Pilawa could have been there...