Zaidee took us to his uncle’s place this afternoon to see how Dodol is made… Dodol is a traditional Malaysian food which he described as being like cookies… it’s nothing like cookies. It takes 7 hours to mix! No wonder most people just buy it these days. It’s gooey and comes in a triangle shape. It tasted alright, like coconut, but it had the consistency of snot. We also had coconut shakes, which were amazingly delicious; however, due to my lovely bout of gastro last night I only dared to have a small amount of mine. Yes, I do realise I’m not going well in the health department… a cold and then gastro, but my awesome gastro-kit seems to have put an end to it. Good purchase, thanks Dad for making sure I got one! What Asian trip is complete without some kind of stomach bug!
Next up was an old Malaysian ‘castle’. It was gorgeous. Made entirely from wood, and with the most intricate carvings inside, it was amazing. Not so amazing, but equally as interesting, was the Torture Museum. As you can imagine, it housed all the old torture devices including the rack, various gouging instruments and all other sorts of stomach churning equipment. I must have had a stronger stomach when I was 12, because I remember doing a project in year 8 on Medieval Torture Methods and I didn’t feel queasy… the same cannot be said about my trip today. Zaidee did his best to scare me, making things move and clunk. Bad Zaidee.
After a beautiful nap, Awi, Nani and Lin took us out (once again)for some shopping and dinner. I bought a dress :) YAY.
Speech
Today was a busy day as far as observations go…
Class # 1 = Maths
We joined Oh May Ling again this morning for maths, to play a game we had told her about using the times tables. It was a success which made us happy – we actually felt like we had contributed something! And the kids enjoyed it.
Class # 2 = Preschool
Super cute! The kids in this class were 5 and 6, a little older than our preschoolers as they start school at age 7 here. We made play-dough. This was to help with the kids fine motor skills and finger dexterity to help them use sign language, as well as write. The first few months of preschool is dedicated to fine motor skills.
Speech Path and Audiologist
A SP and an Audiologist came to visit the school today. Luckily we were able to observe their sessions… along with 5 other people! The poor kids had 7 people watching them in their sessions, taking photos of them and even videos! Nothing like that would happen in Australia! Confidentiality seems to be a different kettle of fish here.
The SP sessions seemed to be testing the child’s ability to hear certain sounds versus their reliance on lip reading. It was very interesting to watch the sessions and see how a session for a child with a severe hearing impairment is conducted. The children were required to identify when they heard a sound, match a sound to a picture and produce the sound themselves.
The Audiologist simply performed an otoscopy as the audiometer was broken, so unfortunately we did not see much in that session.
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