I'm leaving again on Thursday and I still have a week's worth of journaling from Cambodia to transfer ( Read more... )

 Today we saw about 164 patients at the clinic.  I counted & bagged again--I am feeling a lot better though and counting has slowed down, so I think I will be outside tomorrow ( Read more... )

Today we went to breakfast at 6:30 and then headed out to clinic.  I wrote labels for pills and rubber banded pill pouches.  A team went outside to scrape, sand, & paint but Stan asked me to stay inside since I've got a cold.  This evening I'm feeling much better and hopefully I'm on the downswing of it.  The children helped with the outside crew ( Read more... )

We started off at 7 am.  We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the same place as yesterday.  Looks like that will be the restaurant of choice while here (I later found out they find a place that is "safe" and that's where you eat while there, as opposed to risking sickness from some other place ( Read more... )

Last night we stayed in a hotel with a small room with two twin size beds and a shower room (which consists of a toilet, sink, and hand held shower sprayer on the wall).  Melissa is my roomie.  We met Ted & Sue Olbrecht, leader of Foursquare Children of Promise in Cambodia.  We had dinner with them at Charlie's Steakhouse.  Apparently the owner ( Read more... )

Flew into the city on Dragon Air.  Checked in at customs to get our visas and then met the folks from Four Square Church.  We rode a small bus to the training center.  The things we saw were amazing.  The country is beautiful but so destitute.  There were people all along the roads selling things like diesel fuel, some of them with animals such as ( Read more... )

 There was a write up in the local paper today about our trip that was really nice.  I got a great welcoming reception from the gang at church this morning too.  Today I begin to transfer my journal entries.  Mind you:  a writer, I am not ( Read more... )

 Here is a link to the Foursquare Children of Promise's official picture pages of our work.

http://www.missionreports.com/medical_damreiphong_mar08/index.html

But only for a short time.  Leaving again April 10.  My trip was amazing and I'm going to start transferring my journal entries from paper into LJ soon.  For those that are interested, you may see some of my favorite photos from the trip at 
www.flickr.com/imagesbysobriengoode 

Something cool that Xerox is doing

Something cool that Xerox is doing -
If you go to this web site, www.letssaythanks.comyou
can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it, and it
will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq.
You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some
member of the armed services.

How AMAZING it would ( Read more... )