For the second time, Maryknoll this year (2001) is "partnering" with Notre Dame University in the United States as a host for two Notre Dame students coming to Cambodia to learn about life and ministry in a developing country and to offer their time and energy and skills to that development.
Amy Braun and Whitney Thompson arrived 23 June and will be with us for eight weeks. After a week of orientation and meeting the Maryknoll people and their ministries, they will begin teaching summer courses in English at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
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23 June 2001 Rachel Smith (far left), Maryknoll's coordinator for the Notre Dame students in Cambodia, here greets Amy Braun and Whitney Thompson at the Phnom Penh airport. Cori Petro, another Maryknoll lay missioner is on the right. |
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| Amy and Whitney successfully complete their first motordupe rides in Cambodia. | |
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29 June 2001 Part of any experience in another country is interacting with the local people, and language is needed for that as well as just for getting around, doing simple shopping, and just feeling more comfortable. Here Amy and Whitney are studying basic Khmer, the Cambodian language, with Vuthy, a patient friend of Maryknoll who has heard his native tongue mangled by many Maryknollers over the years. |
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1 August 2001 We celebrate all the Maryknoll birthdays here in Phnom Penh, partly as an excuse to have ice cream and cake, and today was Jim Noonan's birthday. He's in the middle in back, with Mary Little on his right, and Rachel Smith, the Notre Dame student coordinator, on his left. In front are ND students Whitney Thompson and Amy Braun, and seminarian Casey Sterr. Whitney is leaving next Sunday so we had a little goodbye for the three of them who have been with us for the summer. |
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