Gail - Fwd: #2 Kuala Lumpur - Be safe.

Gail's Email reply to Maudie 7/22/2014 6:11 AM

Thanks, Maudie.  I'm not too worried about my safety.  It's a risky world and I have lived a most fortunate life, especially the extraordinary experience of Woodstock.

I will be flying to Sibu (East Malaysia) for a special graduation of the first degreed students at the Methodist Pilley Institute, my Dad's school.  My flight path will be JFK to Paris to KL to Sibu, a very long flight, not one that I enjoy.  After the graduation in Sibu, Judy Wong (Robert Hunt's sister-in-law) will be going with me to south China for the 151st anniversary of the arrival of Methodist missionaries in China.  I am expecting to meet my "twin", a girl who was born a few hours before me in 1941, on Founders' Day of the Anglo Chinese College.

ACC was called Ing-Hua in Chinese; Ing for Anglo; Hua for Flowery Kingdom or China.  My "twin was named Ing and I was named Hua.  I will be seeing Ing for the first time since I was 7 years ago.  Amazing, isn't it?

This Friday, I'm flying out to Washington State to visit Robin who will turn 75 on Monday. 

Love,
Gail

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, .. @aol.com [class59] <class59@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Thanks, Gail. I really enjoyed Mr. Hunt's diatribe, but I will still worry about you.  Things are so unsettled in the world.  I can only hope fall and winter will slow the heavy momentum.

We made our trip to Russia just in time last year.  Can't say I learned a lot while we were there, but stepping on Russian soil was a first for me. 

 This year we chose to tour the Midwest.  First, thing learned was this is a big, big country. As I prepared my pictures, the vastness of the Plains where the sky met the earth will stay in my mind forever.  I have a lot of studying to do about the Indians.  An Sioux author told me at the Crazy Horse Indian  Museum that 50 per cent of the Sioux Nation have returned to their original spiritualism.  I am curious to study just what that means.  The Christian missionaries flocked to redeem the Indians in eighteen hundreds and the children were sent to Omaha's Christian School.  Now, their great-grandchildren (since 1979, I believe) have returned to their original beliefs?  Fascinating.  We Americans fought to erase the beliefs and culture, and we, I feel, are to blame for the alcoholism that exists today.  It will be a test in this century where all of this goes.

Lee D