Today’s Deaf Week activity was making decorative paper bracelets. Most of the students were quite creative! And of course afterwards there were the usual photos!
Deaf Week–Day 6
Author: Charles Dittmeier
Deaf Week–Day 5
Sunday will be the big Deaf Day celebration, and one part of the opening ceremony is a coconut dance. Today some of our students were once again rehearsing for their big show.
Deaf Week–Day 4
Day 4 of Deaf Week was a bit more low-key. The students and staff decorated their faces with Cambodian stickers.
This was also Julie Lawler’s birthday and the Phnom Penh staff celebrated with her at lunch time.
Deaf Week–Day 2
Each day of Deaf Week our education students have some sort of fun activity. Today they made little hats from paper cups. Some of the students are really creative! All of them had a lot of fun!
Deaf Week–Day 1
This week the Caritas Deaf Development Programme is celebrating Deaf Week, along with deaf people around the world. Our big celebration will be next Sunday but we started today with an informal gathering at a location of Amazon Coffee which hires deaf baristas. The four participating branches each have two deaf people in the morning shift and two in the afternoon shift. This was an enjoyable way to start deaf week!
Neighborhood Hardware Store
Does this remind you of Ace Hardware back in the day? …Nah, not me either.
A Different Look
This is the hall at St. Jude Thaddeus School we use for mass on Saturday night. This photo was on Sunday morning when the hall had been transformed into the site for the foundation day celebration for the school.
Farewell, Brother Tony….
A group of laity and church people, continuing a Maryknoll tradition of gathering every Wednesday, get together every week for liturgy and a meal together. Today was the last day that Bro. Tony Burrows (3rd left) will be with us. He returns to work in Australia on Friday.
Full load
That’s a rather big load for a rather small moto!
Lots of wires
One photo target of many tourists to Phnom Penh is the mass of overhead wires above the city streets–and on the sidewalks, as in this photo. There are hundreds of wires stretching along almost every thoroughfare–and probably half of them are dead. New wires go up constantly. Old wires are rarely taken down. They’re removed only when they break and dangle in the streets. Notice the scars on the tree where limbs were amputated to make room for wires rather than running the wires in a less obtrusive fashion.