We’ve been working on our travel plans for the end of the month. The National Day Holiday for BISS begins Saturday, Sept. 27, and extends to Oct. 5. It’s a Chinese Holiday, so we’re trying to find a spot outside of China. We finally got confirmation on a week-long trip to Malaysia. It’ll included Kuala Lumpur, then a trip into the Malaysian Highlands and a colonial plantation. The last several days will be spent on a private island in a villa on stilts over the ocean. We are pumped!

Our project for the day is to get a deposit transferred to the travel company. We walk over to our nearby Bank of China outlet, and get it completed. While we’re there we run into a couple of teachers from BISS. They’re setting up an online account. I tried it when we first arrived last year, but the BOC website wouldn’t run on a Mac. When they finish, the clerk helps us set-up our online account. This is big news for me. Until now, I could only check the account at an ATM machine. Now I can check it from the comfort of our apartment. If I understand the process, I’m going to be able to make transfers from the account from home also.

Back home later, we finish up some chores, watch some “Scandal” episodes and order food in from Avocado Tree. We really enjoy dinner, but “Scandal” is getting tiresome. I enjoyed Season 1, and about half of Season 2. Season 3 is the same thing, episode after episode. They have to solve problems they’ve created for themselves, over and over, and over and over, and over and over.