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Last day in the Bangkok House. Lots of work before the departure to Vietnam.
Preparations for a 3-months intensive course in Vietnam have started. I will be teaching "Introduction to Missiology" in Ho Chi Minh City, February - April 2014. It is the material for one semester but packed into a 3-months course.
It is correct or not to add a personal wish list to this website? I am not sure. The goal of it is to inform and not to collect material goods. On the other side there are people who like to contribute in one or the other form to the mission or to my work. For the moment I decided to add a list of my personal wishes or needs on the Mission News page and here. I hope nobody feels somehow pushed or obliged to take the purse out of the pocket...this is not my intention. Forgive me if I took the wrong decision. If there are negative reactions on it I will take it off again.
Coming back from our annual retreat in a beautiful place just at the beach of Hua Hin, I started with Level 3 of Thai language-studies. This is the last level of conversation. Level 4 (around mid November if everything goes smoothly) is about reading and writing. Thai is soooo difficult!
14 - 20 october 2013 annual retreat with all friars of Thailand and 2 friars of the Myanmar-Mission
in Hua Hin
12 - 13 october 2013 Parish-feast in our only parish in Thailand:
Ave Maria Parish in Prachuap Khiri Khan
Feast of St. Francis with all the friars in Lamsai, brother Paskalis is with us too.
21 - 22 September 2013 Chapter of the Thailand-Foundation in Sampran, it is my first chapter since arriving in Thailand. The previous chapters I was always out of the country.
starting from 18 July 2013 Thai studies in Union Language School
3 to 16 April 2013 in Saigon - Vietnam to withdraw my missionary visa at the Thai Consulate General.
6 March 2013
Beginning of my Thai Language Studies
17 February 2013 (01.00 am)
Arrival in Bangkok
16 February 2013
After 6 months I left Vietnam with a feeling of deep gratitude for all the nice poeple I have met there.
My departure for Thailand scheduled for 31 January has to be postponed, because the visa has not arrived yet. This gives me the oppurtunity to participate on Vietnamese New Year Tết.
New date for departure: 16 February.
From 10 to 19 January I'll be on a trip to Nord-Vietnam (Hanoi, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, China)
and visit to br. Tuan.
