It's Saturday afternoon, and most of the children have gone home for the weekend. Some, however, either live too far to be picked up or their parents cannot afford to come to get them, so here they stay. The sisters who work in the kitchen seem to adopt each kid who comes for some company.
This young guy decided that he wanted to learn how to fry pork so he got first-hand experience and was only too glad to pose. He's cooking on a hot charcoal fire. Yup, guys love to cook when it's dangerous.
It takes longs hours of chopping to get ready all of the food necessary to feed almost 300 people each day. Getting a head start on the week is always a good idea.
I have absolutely no idea why he was in the water. All I know is that all the girls wanted me to take his picture. Hmm...
I know this doesn't fit here, but it cracked me up. I was coming back from teacher one of the sisters and I found Fr. Phuc sitting high in a ficus tree pruning like crazy. He's always doing the unexpected. Father said he felt the tree needed a pruning and he had the time, so up he went.
In the summers I spend time with my good friends in Phat Diem, Vietnam, a small country village with a world famous cathedral. Here are some of my musings. If you would like to correspond, please email me: garymeegan@gmail.com.
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Each year after graduation, the students eishing to enter university must take entrance examinations. They have been studying the past few w...
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Feeding three meals a day to over 200 starving girls and boys is difficult at best. Here is the dining room filled for breakfast. As usual ...
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I was blessed to have a visit from my good friends from Hanoi. This is their family around the table: Nam Vu is 6, Nam is 16, then their dri...