| Today was a busy--and varied--day. Early in the morning we headed for Mt. Kinabalu, stopping to visit a deaf school. Then on the return trip we stopped for mass and a quick meeting at a retreat center. In the evening, back at the hotel, we had our closing dinner and presentation of certificates. |
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| Today we took a trip to Mt Kinabalu, stopping on the way at a deaf school near the base of the mountain. We had met some of the students at mass last Sunday. |
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| One of the participants in the conference was Maryknoll Sister Arlene Trant. Arlene and Charlie had worked closely together in Macau during the thirteen years Charlie lived in Hong Kong. |
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| Mt. Kinabalu rises 13,400 feet, the tallest mountain between the Himalayas and a peak several hundred feet higher in Indonesia. It provided a great backdrop for the hundreds of photos our group took there. We were at the 2,500 foot level so the peaks behind us are two miles higher although they don't appear so high. |
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| We ate at a restaurant near the entrance to the national park. It took them a long time to cook for our group of 45± people so we had lots of time to look at the peaks and waterfalls through two telescopes set up there. |
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| Nearby was a retreat center where we stopped for a liturgy celebrated by Fr. Sato Hozo who works in the Philippines. He signed the mass and Charlie voiced the texts for him. |
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| After the liturgy, we had a short meeting to nominate members of a committee to follow up the ideas from this conference and plan activities until the next gathering. |
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| At the closing dinner, a group of young deaf women from Sabah sang a song in sign language and invited all the group to stand and join in. |
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| Finally it was time to call an official end to the conference and present certificates to all those who had attended. |
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