Tuesday, April 2
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My flight to the Maryknoll Lay Missioners board meeting in New York wasn’t until the afternoon so I went to the Deaf Development Programme in the morning. On they way, things were normal in Phnom Penh, meaning that the strange sights were certainly there.
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It didn’t take long to do the four miles to the airport. It has certainly changed since I first flew in there in 1997.
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My first flight was just three hours to Guangzhou in China, a big modern airport where I had a 6+ hour layover. I was going to use their free wi-fi but like this young man above, I found that the little kiosks that authorized a temporary wi-fi account didn’t work.
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At the Guangzhou airport, I thought it was rather odd that a warning about wet floors seemed to be permanent. Later I found out that the caution was not painted on the floor as I first suspected but was actually projected from the ceiling. I guess it can be turned off when the floor is not wet but it was on the whole six hours I was there. And the floor wasn’t wet.
Finally at 1:00 AM in the morning we took off on a 15+ hour flight from Guangzhou to New York City.