Time Goes Quickly

To-morrow is "Aloha Friday" and another week has passed. As I have said before, time does go quickly here.

Tonight I sat beside a young lady from Bangkok, Thailand. She was not disappointed about the recent coup by the military in her country. She has two degrees in Agriculture and works for the Thailand government as a consultant. She has travelled extensively to the UK and Europe on behalf of the government. She is a specialist in the sugar industry and when I told her that we grow sugar beets in Canada in a small way, but that they are processed in the USA, she was surprised we wouldn't have our own processing plants. Before working for the government, she spent 15 years planting churches throughout Thailand. She claimed they planted 685 in the 15 year period, but leadership is a major problem.

Yesterday at Rotary, we had a speaker telling us of the dangers of too much cell phone use. In the USA, kids use cell phones five times as much as their parents, an average of 68 minutes per day. Her message was that the incidence of brain cancer is growing quickly, much of it caused by cell phone use! If true, very scary.

Dr Aldo, the VP of training here, is leading the volunteers in a second bible study group. He is quite a Bible Scholar, and a very good teacher. Naturally, we studied the book of Haggai first, and now we are into Acts. Aldo always has a point you've never heard before.

The pictures are from our recent hike. We haven't been out since to get some new ones.