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It's like being in a musical! I hear beautiful singing all the time. From five in the morning until 9:30pm when everyone goes to sleep.


Left wing, right wing & centre aisle practicing a recessional hymn

Another light-bulb moment for me when some of the (join-the) dots from my past were connected last night. I was asked to teach the song "Give thanks" to at least 100 sisters in the chapel. Who would have known that my minute knowledge in choral conducting would come into play? Also, a group of aspirants learning Chinese, wants me to teach them the Our Father in mandarin. Now I know why I had to struggle in Maris Stella Jiang-Hua-Yu High School for five years! It doesn't matter if my Chinese sucks, all it matters is that I know that prayer by heart. (But the thought is simply amazing, isn't it?)

I met someone special today - Huy. He's four years old and really tiny. Sr. Nga tells me Huy was born not being able to walk. Now, he prances around at a community for disabled kids about an hour's journey from the Mother House.


I could probably pack him in my camera bag!

Tomorrow I head south to the highland region of Pleiku. It's half the distance from Hue to Saigon. There I will continue classes with the aspirants and do some locational filming of the communities there with the ethnic minorities.

Y'know? I have been using many gifts that I have been blessed with. It's very reassuring that I'm part of an exciting plan that continues to unfold!


I chanced upon a Lotus pond on my way back from Nuoc Ngot.