Permanent Residency

Today I (Heather) went into Perth and got the sticker that shows I am now a Permanent Resident. Then the Immigration Officer spilled her coffee on my passport.


After that I wandered up to the Citizenship office to discuss my case with an officer. He said that I will be eligible to apply for Citizenship after February 2010, if I don't do any more travelling. Travelling outside of the country would extend the time I have to wait to apply. The US turns a blind eye to dual citizenship, their policy is not to promote it but they do not prevent it.


This afternoon I have a second Doctor's appointment to determine what it is that I am sick with. It has the 'classic' malaria symptoms (though the doc doesn't think malaria is a problem in Indonesia...) with a sore throat and chesty cough thrown in. He was leaning towards Dengue fever (though I have no rash and no other symptom), I am hoping for the flu.


When I visited the doc on Tuesday I had my blood drawn- the nurse (or whatever her title may be) couldn't get it out of the first arm- poke, poke, poke- so she drew blood from my other arm. It probably didn't help that I was having chills and coughs and just generally miserable!





Here's a picture of a cow patty on the beach near where Dave is, in Indonesia. Someone decorated it with flowers...

Sunset

This is a photo of the sunset at the beach near us. I'm (David) spending more time fishing now, caught my first couple of fish on Seram last night, near where this photo was taken. Rescued a calf that was stuck in a drain a couple of days ago.

Heather's back in Australia

Hello All,

I (Heather) am back in Australia. Currently I am living with David's parents, but hope to move in with a friend soon. I have work at the private school associated with the church we've been attending while in Australia, as a term 4 relief teacher in pre-primary.