Right now, Kirsty and I are in Kelantan, West Malaysia, near the Thai border. We are not having a great time to say the least. I'll start from the beginning. There was much debate over the flight cost because it was pretty much extorshinate by Malaysian standards. In the end, we decided to pay for it, cause we were hoping the camp would be as much a success as the previous one. Initially, we were told the camp was going to run for 6 days, Saturday until Saturday....

Lucy Lim from Kuala Lumpur flew over to give us, deaf and hearing a course on gestures and communication. I had forgotten that it was taking place on Saturday till Catherine jogged my memory five minutes before it began! Rushed to the school from KK. When I arrived, I was using my lip pattern while signing away till Spancer signed 'Switch off the lip pattern, not allow to speak in this room.' Lucy taught us about nonverbal communication, which is behaviour....

The four great girls from Sarawak came up to KK for the weekend seeing that their primary school is closed for two weeks due to the hand, foot and mouth disease. Seven primary kids have died from this outbreak but hopefully the situation is controlled for when they return to their placements. Was bundles of fun catching up with them and we hit the regular club, BED (this name is annoying as it really confuses people to whether we heading to bed as in to sle...

As a result of last night's escapades, I am now sitting with a forceful stare at the computer screen, to prevent myself from nodding off! All will be revealed in a bit if you can manage to read past the first few paragraphs. The night before the drama competition, Kirsty and I watched the 'Weeping Willow' dress rehearsal and after, we were asked to give comments, which we did and the kids listened and responded really well to them. Have to say that the perfo...

Never in a million light years had I thought I'd be running a deaf camp, especially in a foreign country and interacting with kids isn't really my scene but I am glad to say that I was severely mistaken. All of us raring to go in our deaf camp t-shirts and it was quite a long bus ride, up and around the mountains to the isolated deaf camp site on top of a hill in Ranau. The main outdoor section looked directly out towards the scenic Mountain Kinabalu, it wa...