Cheng & Kendra in the news!

Tuesday March 14th – When I woke up today I turned on the TV to the news as usual and lo and behold… Cheng and Kendra were on! Channel News Asia (like a local CNN) had attended the symposium and did some filming of Cheng prior to the presentation as well as filming the whole presentation! It was a good clip and looped back on several times that morning. Once I grabbed the local paper (Straights Times) I found another article and a big photo. In all there were 3 or 4 newspapers that covered the event and the one TV station. It seemed that all the new interest was generated at the urging of Ambassador Tommy Koh who we had met with last week.

The rest of the day was spent interviewing two potential applicants. It is always interesting to visit people in their homes as we continue to learn so much about the culture and social customs. After the first interview we had lunch with our applicant at the nearby mall. She lives near and is friends with the person we were interviewing next. As he was tied up for a while she took us to a foot reflexology shop in the mall. While we enjoyed (most of the time) our foot rub we chatted with the owner of the shop and his wife. I say we enjoyed most of the time because foot reflexology can range from relaxing, to slightly uncomfortable to downright painful when they hit certain spots on your foot. Susan and I were both wearing shirts with the guide dog logo and pretty soon the couple noticed and asked about GDB. It turns out they had seen the TV footage of Cheng on the local news that morning, and had read an article in the Chinese paper. They we very excited to have us there and were avid dog lovers.

We then met the next applicant and went to his home to conduct the interview. After the interview was over we managed to do a bit of walking around, rode the MRT again and ate dinner. By this time I was craving some familiar junk food and when I happened to see a good old Burger King, I satisfied my junk food compulsion!