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The Road Report More Friends December, 1998
Meet some of the very nice people who made my stay in Kiangan so very very memorable. I enjoyed myself so much that I felt that I had always lived there!!! People were most kind, even when I mispronounced the name of the town (I have a "ng" linguistic block it seems).
School and Parish Staff-- St. Joseph School has won many educational awards.	Seminarians who kept me from hurting myself and forgetting essentials for Mass.
I gave a demo of my camera to a physics class and explained how I sent electronic post cards home.... here is one side of the class....	.... and here is the other side. Although there are no private phone lines in Kiangan and no internet connection these students had a very sophisticated understanding of the Web without ever having been on the net!!
Some students waiting for class.	The man who made sure I got to where I was supposed to be on time and in one piece!
Some high school teachers who frequently visited the "convent" (they use the Spanish term for rectory-- which I found very confusing at first!).	More visitors and one of the seminarians-- the guy on the left could open beer bottles with his teeth-- I had 3 beers one evening just to watch the astounding feat!!!
Me at the monument commemorating the Japanese surrender of the Philippines-- Kiangan was their last stronghold.	The seminarian who accompanied me on the visit to the "shrine" where the Japanese capitulated-- many towns folks still tell stories of the war.
A Jesuit from Korea who also helped out at the parish over Christmas-- he made friends with a Korean in the neighborhood and we all went for a dynamite-- in every sense-- Korean dinner at his friend's house.	A seminarian advertises Le Moyne College-- it was cool enough in the mountains to wear a heavy sweatshirt at times.
One of the high school students who also served as an altar boy.	Two parish assistants prepare dinner for us-- this duck was brought up during the offertory at Mass-- I thought it was a wood carving until it turned to look at me!!
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