It rains almost every afternoon now in the Cambodian rainy season and there was a light rain this evening as I came back across town after a wedding rehearsal. Here is how some people coped with the wet:



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It rains almost every afternoon now in the Cambodian rainy season and there was a light rain this evening as I came back across town after a wedding rehearsal. Here is how some people coped with the wet:
This is a combination shop you wouldn’t see much in the US. On the left is a small eatery, selling pre-cooked foods selected by the customer from large pots hopefully covered with lids to keep out the dust. Muslim customers (this is near a Muslin neighborhood) can eat with no qualms because the sign assures all the food is halal. On the right, in the contraption on wheels made from chicken wire and shelves, the proprietors are selling all sorts of metal hand tools and utensils–machetes, axes, shovels, hoes, scythes, etc. To protect their merchandise and their customers, they are hanging a tarpaulin to block the sun and rain. They are tieing it to the telephone lines, probably figuring it won’t bother anyone–and probably figuring that half of them are non-functioning anyway.
I spent the morning at BNH Hospital, then had lunch with a refugee, and then headed to the airport for the evening flight back home. Click here for a little more description.
This day was mainly spent in BNH Hospital. The different tests would make for fascinating photos but it’s rather difficult to be the subject of the tests and to be taking pictures of what’s going on. And the hospital rules wouldn’t allow it anyway. Click here for a few visuals from the day.
Yesterday I came back from Bangkok and was planning to post about Day 2 in the city there but when I got home there were a multitude of disruptions that prevented me from getting to this website.
The same happened again today. I was preparing this evening to start work on a post here and Mother Teresa’s sisters called and asked me to take a mass for them across town early tomorrow morning. That meant I had to prepare a homily so that shot the website again.
I’ll get something posted tomorrow, though!
I moved to a new guesthouse which has really good wi-fi (better than I have at home) so now I can post the pictures from yesterday’s arrival in Bangkok and stay at the Bangkok Christian Guest House. Click here.
Yesterday I promised a post here, from the guest house in Bangkok, if everything was going OK. Well, it’s not going OK so I’m going to have to leave it at this short notice and hope the new guest house tomorrow has better wi-fi.
Tomorrow I have a meeting of all the Phnom Penh priests in the morning and then head from there to the airport for a trip to Bangkok for a medical exam. If all goes well, I’ll be able to post here tomorrow from the Bangkok Christian Guest House where most Maryknollers stay.
When I was a kid, the Tastee Bread company trucks—emblazoned with the slogan “Baked while you sleep”—rumbled around early-morning Louisville delivering bread to the grocery stores. This woman’s bread is also probably baked while everyone is sleeping, but she doesn’t have any truck with a logo and has to be content with singing out “Num bung,” the Khmer word for bread, to alert her customers.
Mother’s little helper.