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When I got my first passport in 1983 it had, I think, 40 pages and cost $15. After ten years when I got a new one, it cost $30. Then the third one was $80 or $90 and had only half the pages. Now this latest announcement from the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh raises the cost to $130! Ouch!
It’s an interesting indicator of the tumultuous times we live in when our Phnom Penh archbishop, at a priests meeting, gives us all a Christmas gift–a hand sanitizer, complete with his coat of arms! We also got some candy in the bag.
This Friday was a day when regular classes were canceled and the students were able to participate in activities and games to be part of the Christmas spirit that spreads around Cambodia even though very few people here could explain Christmas as a religious celebration. Click here to see some of the morning activities.
After laying the cornerstone last week, construction of the new church at St. Joseph parish has continued, especially assessing the firmness of the soil and the beginning of driving piles into the ground. Tonight when we finished our evening mass, the workers had departed for the day and left this crane silhouetted against the evening sky.
Today was Soknym’s first birthday as a member of the DDP staff and the rest of the staff provided a cake for celebrating together with him this afternoon.
