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Blog posts : "Updates 2016"

December 2022

Season's Greetings!

Here we are, after another year has shot by. For a change, we have all good news. First of all, Covid is lurking nearby, but not in our vicinity. Although some of our staff sill wear masks daily, hardly any of the kids need to.…

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October 2016

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Sarnelli House is a pretty darn busy place! The 120 kindergarten, grade and junior high kids are on their midyear school vacation. The 24 junior high and vocational students have been on their break for a while now. All are…

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August 2016

HI FROM WET AND RAINY SARNELLI!

I arrived back at Thailand’s green shores on July 28. It was great to get home, and see all the kids and the workers. I had the July 30 Mass for the kids; that day being my 78th birthday. Despite a huge rain (which …

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July 2016

Greetings to you all! Rice planting has begun and our staff, older children and volunteers have all been out in the fields at various times, knee deep in muddy water, bending to plant the rice seedlings into the ground. They are committed to the task…

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June 2016

Many things have been going on at Sarnelli House. After ten weeks of holidays, the children returned to school in the middle of May. We have 156 children at the moment and only 11 of them stay home because they are too small to go to school.  So orga…

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May 2016

The kids had a nice long school vacation, and now they have gathered back here to begin the new school term, around May 16. There are clothes to be bought; names and class designations to be hand sewn on shirts and blouses. New shoes; new school bags…

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April (เมษายน) 2016

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HAPPY THAI NEW YEAR!!

April 13-16 is Thai New Year, and people go to the temple or to Mass and then begin pouring water on the elderly and throwing water on everyone else. The hot season is in the forties already (Celsius)…

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March (มีนาคม) 2016

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HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!      

I tell everybody that everyone wants to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. I also find out that this is definitely not true! Anyway, watch out for the green beer.

March 4 was the las…

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February (กุมภาพันธ์) 2016

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Happy Valentine's Day to all!

We had a great Valentine’s Day party for the kids. Only Ole and I were here; no volunteers or guests. The kids wanted egg noodles with red pork, etc. They also had cake from our bakery, pop an…

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January (มกราคม) 2016

We read about all that snow and cold and we saw the snowy horrors in other lands on TV, here in Thailand! Here, in the northeast, it is bitter cold, and they had snow in Laos, north of us, yesterday! The cold season held off for two months or more, b…

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