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Workshop on Buddhist Morality: Kampong Cham |
Our second DDP workshop on morality was held in Kampong Cham. We don't have a big enough room for the workshop in the DDP buildings there so we rented a meeting room in a local hotel. |
Five DDP staff and two monks drove this morning from Phnom Penh to Kampong Cham, arriving in time to start the workshop at 9:30 AM. Here one of the teachers in Kampong Cham gets the program moving. | |
Breaks at Cambodian functions seldom have junk food. In the morning this young woman was enjoying a sandwich and a bottle of water during the break. | |
Charlie Dittmeier gave the Christian perspective on morality as the last talk in the morning when the Buddhist monks left to eat lunch. | |
We had the usual two-hour break for lunch and all the students bicycled home as they normally would on a school day. | |
The DDP staff ate in the hotel restaurant. | |
One activity in the afternoon agenda was a game in which two teams--Year One and Year Two students separated into two groups--raced to blow up a large number of balloons. | |
The monks spoke again in the afternoon. One of the topics was jobs that are not acceptable, like gun-running, drug-dealing, trafficking people, and poaching endangered species of animals. | |
At the break in the afternoon, the monks had only water and fruit juice. They eat their last meal of the day at 11:00 AM and then do not eat again until 6:00 AM the following morning, but they are allowed to drink water and milk and juices, just not any alcohol. These two monks are 21 and 23 and have both been monks for ten years. | |
Before we ended the day, we made sure to get a picture of all the students and staff with the monks. | |
The monks had asked to see the DDP hostel in Kampong Cham, where the students they worked with today live, so we made a slight detour as we left the hotel and headed to the highway to Phnom Penh. It's a three-hour drive from Kampong Cham to Phnom Penh. |
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