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Today the schedule of activities was changed to move an awards ceremony and evaluation to the evening so the staff could go to the beach in the morning when the sun was out and there was no rain. Click here for pictures from the day.
Today was a full day of reports and activities geared toward a strong sense of DDP identity. We were planning a roasting of corn on the cob tonight, over at the playing field, but rain during supper scuttled that. Click here to see scenes from the day.
Today all the DDP staff headed south to Kep Province to Shalom Valley center for our annual staff meeting. The bus ride took about five hours with stops and problems with the mud. Click here to see the day.
I confused myself and forgot to put up this last post about the last day in Kentucky and the return trip to Phnom Penh. Click here to learn more.
For 30+ years Maryknoll lay missioners and brothers and sisters and priests have gone to Bangkok for medical treatment that just wasn’t available here in the kingdom. Things are changing now as is evidenced by this sign informing people that now another procedure, blood dialysis, is available at the Russian Hospital.
While I was in the US, my e-mail client (the software that I use to read and write e-mail) got corrupted and I have been fighting with it ever since. The software puts markers on e-mails that have arrived and flags them as read, deleted, etc. Somehow the markers got scrambled and I have not been able to view some of the mail that I downloaded to the computer but now cannot display. I’m sorry if I haven’t answered something you sent me!
Yesterday I was mostly at my sister’s house doing some work. Today I was mostly on the road all day. Click here to see some of stops I made.
My main activity centered on lunch and dinner today. Before and after those meals, I was able to do a lot of work on the computer. Especially I need to prepare a homily for next weekend since I will get in to Phnom Penh late Friday afternoon and have to preach the next day.
At lunch time I met with a group of former seminarians from St. Thomas Seminary in Louisville. They were students a couple years after I finished there but I have known them, especially through David Browne, my brother-in-law who was in that class with them. We had a really enjoyable lunch with them and their wives.
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Today the main focus was on a gathering of the Charles-and-Martha Dittmeier children–and their children and grandchildren—for an easy-going pleasant Sunday afternoon together. Click here for some scenes from the day.
The MKLM board met for a half day and then at noon I headed for JFK airport and the flight to Louisville, Kentucky to visit my family. Click here for scenes from the day.