Yasothon on Google Earth !

Hi all, I just couldn't resist sharing with you where the Home Hak Center is... just a little further round the corner of the same globe you have your two feet on ! Welcome to Google Earth, which prooves how small the world is and how all of us living on it are neighbors and brothers. I find it amazing to see that we can zip around the world always more easily, with my Airbus airplanes or this peppy programme here, but it seems all the harder to reach out and meet the people we fly above, to really get to know them. I'm glad to try to help out a bit in making the world not a smaller place, everybody knows that, but also a more brotherly place...

Bien le bonjour a tous, je voulais simplement partager avec vous ou se trouve le centre Home Hak... a un saut de puce de vous, sur le meme globe que celui ou vous vous tenez a l'instant ! Bienvenue sur le programme Google Earth, qui encore une fois demontre que notre planete est minuscule et que tous ses habitants sont voisins et freres de sort. Je trouve ca epatant de virevolter d'un pays a l'autre, que ce soit dans mes avions Airbus ou bien avec ce petit programme pas idiot, mais en meme temps il devient toujours plus difficile de tendre la main a ces gens que nous survolons, de chercher a les connaitre vraiment. Je suis fier de poser mes petites briquettes sur le pont qui nous unifie tous, qui nous fait dire non pas ue le monde est petit, c'est deja une evidence, mais surtout que le monde est fraternel...

Hallo an Allen ! Ich wollte unbedingt euch mitteilen, wo der Home Hak Zentrum wirklich liegt... und zwar auf diese gleiche Kugel, wo Ihr heute selbst steht ! Wilkommen auf Google Earth, der noch einmal beweist, wie klein die Erde ist und wie wie alle den gleichen Schicksaal teilen. Ich finde es geil, links und rechts zu fliegen, mit Airbus Flugzeuge oder mit diesem geschickten Programmchen, aber gleichzeitig scheint es immer schwieriger, diese unter uns bleibende Leute zu treffen, kennenzulernen. Ich bin schon etwas stolz, meine kleine Tropfe im Ozean der Bruderschaftligkeit reinzugiessen...

Install the Google Earth Programme – you've got to have ADSL to use it

Installez le Programme Google Earth – c'est indispensable d'etre en ADSL pour s'en servir

Installieren Sie den Google Earth Programm – ohen DSL geht's nicht

Then download this Placemarker I've created for the Home Hak Center

Puis telechargez le Placemarker que j'ai cree pour le centre Home Hak

Dann laden Sie den Placemarker herunter, den ich fur Home Hak eingerichtet habe

Talk about having lots to do !

Since about three weeks now three scouts from the south of France have come over, bringing us a little of the french sunshine in these monsoon-covered days. Together we've launched the construction of a magnificent "sala", a kind of patio where we'll be able to rest and play protected from the rain and sun here, which are kind of binary : steaming hot On//Off, pouring buckets On//Off . We were pretty ambitious in designing a six-sided project, but in two days we'll be finished and it's already looking great ! Now all I'll need to find are a few hammocks, to at least dream of being able to take some free time...

Two days ago we had an exceptionnally heavy day. The Japanese embassy in Thailand has offered us a six-wheel truck, transformed into a bus to drive the kids to and back from school. The Ambassador in person came over for the official ceremony, we had also done all our possible to reel in the chief of the Yasothon Province and the mayor, both of whom are still wary of Aids. But they did send their deputies, at least. We had organized many activities during the day, from Sauna and massage to cooking courses, including sushi (my contribution for this, I'm glad there were not many Japanese present...) And of course we had many dances, even we Farang danced too !

On Pi Tiou's request, I did full public relations with many of the VIPs who came, convincing them into believing that you don't get AIDS just by living with HIV+ kids and people. I can't yet say it worked, but I have good hope that we'll be able to present the subject soon in certain schools in front of classes, and so on. Sometimes people are just throwing everything related to AIDS in the same batch, labeled "discard and keep away", including the kids and people infected...

These are just a few of the things that happened in the last few days, I could go on for ages about the last little bruise of little Keo or the new treasure (today a plastic paper clip) that Ung Ang found and tried to eat (again), but even if this is the heart of what we live in our everyday lives, I can imagine it might get a bit boring... as all parents know, only your own kids are worth hearing about !

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