Tim and I went to this green Green School in Ubud Bali, Indonesia. In fact we went for a weekend, but the one thing we did was a tour of the school. And a cooking class.
The Green School was started by a John and Cynthia Hardy ( big jewelry in Europe and Australia) who were living there and wanted better schooling than they saw offered. So they started their own! It is 4 years old, has pre-school to graduating high school. They use the circle principle in gatherings, where you are in a circle. It teaches wonderful communication, and an equality (no row one, front or back) 330 students, from 133 countries!!! YES.
The curriculum has three principles, community, academic and business. They have green studies; they plant and harvest produce for their dining room , they run a cafe and coffee shop to teach business, and they learn to love and respect the environment. There is a bursary program to include local kids, 10% now and growing. 10% of the staff is bi-lingual, Indonesian and English. They have a program to save endangered species. They have taken an endangered starling population from 8 to 84.
They have a resident cow! I could go on. I was knocked out, needless to say.
I meet a mom waiting for her boy. She is 71, and has an 11 year old son. At 60 she had in vitro, but carried the baby herself. To term. At 60!!
So Tim is in the midst of a course of rabies shots. Not convenient when traveling. In Ubud, Tim went to pat the hotel dog, a very old mutt. I think he is probably deaf and blind and so bit a tiny puncture wound in his hand. I have seen the dog at the hotel three times over the last year, and am sure he is not rabid, but you have to follow the protocol.
The hotel sent Tim to a doc who gave him two shots. We then got to Philippines and he had to hunt up the medication and find a place to have it administered. So off to the hospital in Puerto Princesa. Then he had to buy a cooler, and more medication to carry the med to El Nido. And a lengthy conversation with them at out hotel in El Nido to see if they could administer the shot on the island. Which they could do. So we arrived with the anti-dote, and she went to give it and the syringe broke.
They had to find more med, get it sent out ( a 1 1/2 hours boat trip out) and managed to, so he had the shot on the same day. He is now on the phone trying to find the med here is Singapore, and find someone to give it. Each of these is costing money, this third one about $300. Then he has one more in a few weeks. An expensive greeting to the dog.
This is out of order with our trips, but you don't care. My friend Jane Morgan arrives tomorrow night. We will have 3 days here, (Chinese New Year) and head to Myanmar Feb 1-8. Yangoon, Bagan, and Inle Lake. Then back for 2 days and off to Hanoi. We will take an overnight train from Hanoi to near the Chinese border and see hill tribes, and the foothills of the Himalayas. I am like a kid at Christmas. Can't wait.
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