David Oswald:  

After leaving PHHS in December 1972 I put myself through college at SDSU finally graduating in December 1979, passed the CPA exam and moved to MN for six years. Affectionately calling it my period of "temporary insanity" it was an adventure I really enjoyed and a good start to my career as a CPA. In 1986 we moved back to San Diego County and settled in Encinitas establishing a successful practice in Carlsbad. In 2001 my wife and I moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as our five children were now old enough to be on their own. I lived there about half time coming back to the U.S. to keep the practice running with the help of two key employees who I brought in as partners. In 2008 we moved to Melbourne, Australia and in March 2010 came back to the U.S. for good (I think). During our time in Malaysia we volunteered at an Islamic orphanage in a suburb of K.L. spending most of our time in the nursery where the kids needed the most personal attention. There were up to about 30 children there in the nursery at any given time, age from birth to two years old, with only about 20 cribs. Conditions weren't that great at the orphanage but the employees did the best they could and older children there helped out with the younger ones. To make a very long story short, after a more than four year ordeal, we were successful in becoming the first Americans in the history of that country to adopt a child under the Sharia Law. So now we have a very special sixth child. We first met Anandi (she is Indian) when she arrived at the...Expand for more