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We’re still getting used to our new mass center at St. Jude Thaddeus School in Phnom Penh. We use their multi-purpose room (a former warehouse) for masses on Saturdays. They keep changing the room around each week. They have some wooden risers we use for a platform for the altar and always before they were covered in worn red carpeting and were of different heights. Tonight they were covered in green and are all the same height, a big improvement.
These motorcycle helmets cost 25,000 riel. That is equivalent to US $6.25. Would you trust your head to a six-dollar helmet?
When we came to the Deaf Development Programme this morning, we found that a large section of the ceiling had collapsed in our training room. We were planning to have a large meeting there Friday so I got on the phone to arrange for us to use a meeting room at the Catholic church near us.
Just about everything can be bought from carts on the street in Phnom Penh: clothes, shoes, rain gear, snacks, drinks–you name it. Here a fruit seller offers a variety of in-season fruits. I sometimes am concerned about the hygiene level of sellers who peel, open, slice their fruit but it sure is convenient. I can’t imagine myself cutting up a pineapple at home.