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Last year this intersection had each of the four corners sequentially fenced off as these stanchions were created for a major pedestrian overpass to give students safe access to a large secondary school to the right of the photo. Then Covid-19 came. The school is closed but they could have finished the work on the overpass. For some reason, they didn’t.
Hey, Cambodia has reached the Big Time now–we opened our first 7-Eleven store yesterday. People—spacially distanced–stood in line out in a pouring rain to be part of the first-day crowd. There are plans for another 5-10 stores in the kingdom in the near future.
Because we have always rented our Maryknoll office rather than buy land (difficult for foreigners in Cambodia) and because our numbers have changed, we have moved quite a bit. 2021 will be remembered as one of the years we made a move. Click here for some scenes from the action.
In the “new” Maryknoll office, I live upstairs. It’s not fancy but basically clean and certainly meets all my needs. It looks like the landlord recently replaced the sink faucets and shower heads in the bedrooms.
Look at the water coming out of this new faucet! It sprays in all directions, even over the edge of the sink so that your front gets wet while washing hands. The spray comes out with force and wets not only the sink and the person but even the wall behind the faucet.
I took off the spout of the faucet thinking there was something lodged in the opening to make it spray so wildly, but, nope, that’s the way it was designed!
From the graph, it looks like Cambodia is on the road to recovery. Not exactly. The government admitted this week that the sum of new infections in all the provinces is greater than the total for that day announced by the Ministry of Health. Thousands of Cambodian migrant workers have been coming back across the border from Thailand day and night, legally and illegally. Anything after the official announcement time of 6:00 PM just isn’t recorded.
Finally the big moving day arrived. We recruited our motordupe and tuk-tuk drivers to help out for the day, and then all that rattan furniture went on to the big of a rented truck.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 25th, there may not be a posting here on the website because I’m not sure how soon and how easily I will be able to set up everything in the new place. Also, although we ordered in advance, I don’t know if the wi-fi will be installed and ready to go. See you Thursday for sure!
Tomorrow is moving day for Maryknoll Cambodia. On Wednesday we move from our old office on Street 320 to a smaller building. So far this week we have been packing and gathering furniture. It’s interesting to note how much of our furniture is rattan, the choice of foreigners because it’s light and easy to move and not so expensive.