TGIT (Thursday)

This week is a short week due to the Hindu holiday Deepavali. That means we have all day Friday to clean up and get groceries for the McGrath visit. Yesterday Amy rented a car as She and Michel are driving to the Cameron Highlands for a holiday on Friday morning. We took advantage of the car to go to Sunway Pyramid to load up on the essentials (food, toilet paper, beer, and wine). It was great having a vehicle to fetch the stuff with. We constantly chanted 'left, left, left' to assist Amy with keeping to the correct (not right) side of the road. Amy performed her duties admirably.

For some reason Shelley and I found it very difficult to get out of bed this morning. Must have been the shopping endomorphins from the previous night. A glass of wine and a little time for reflection sounds good for tonight.

This morning we are meeting with the principal of Taylor's IB school to see if there is anything we can do to assist him with a workshop he is planning for his teachers (Malaysians) to, for want of a better word, jazz up their lesson plans to engage their students. I would add a healthy dose of 21st Century Skills, project based learning (more doing, less listening) based on constructivist learning theory. The school is located in Sri Hartemus which is deep in expat country. It, apparently is a very nice area of KL so Shelley and I are looking forward to visiting that Taylor's campus.

The weather in KL has been wonderful. Very little rain and the humidity is around 50% rather than the 75+ % we experienced when we arrived in late June. I would guess we are in their Fall. Rumour has it that Ottawa was expecting flurries (as in snow) this week. Somehow, I am having problems envisioning what flurries look like :-)

TTYL,

Jim