Ready, set, go.......

Well not quite yet, but soon. Feb 15th the flight will leave from Vancouver BC to Taipei, overnight there and visit with friends. On the next day to Bali, again overnight there and catch up with Sean and Sierra. The next day we will fly together to Dili, Timor-Leste. The time in Timor will be spent getting ready to do a study of the relative contribution of money and people to improve health status of a new nation. We will attempt to look back over the past decade and see what has helped the most. Life expectancy has increased and that is good, why it has increased is a more interesting question. The next three steps in the trip will be to NE India where Bhutan, India and Tibet meet high in the Himalaya to visit again this year Jhamtse Gatsal the school and community I spent a month at last year about this time. And then the final part of the trip will be visiting Tzee Chung and Ping in Taipei, where I will catch up with Jiasong and TaiMing. TaiMing will be doing his annual month or so of studies in a Chinese medium of instruction school.