Good Morning Thomas

Dear Thomas,
I write to you this Tuesday evening at 7:50 p.m. and it is Wednesday morning in your area in India.

I have been fooling around with my computer and I just downloader "Borders" which is a book store and you can get fre electronic books or Ebooks. So it gives me something to read when I am bored. I know this book store because they have one in Boston. And today I saw on the internet this store and so I downloaded the page. It would be worth while if you are interested in reading.

Today was very cold here in Cochabamba and I felt a tickle in my throat which meant that I was sleeping with my mouth open during the night. In fact I had the heater on in my room to take off the chill.
I don't like getting out of bed on a cold room although I am dressed warmly in bed and I have four blankets on my bed.

I hardly ever am I in the nude in my bed even on the warmest days, I always have pajamas and a tee shirt on. Just in case I should died in my sleep, I don't want someone to find me in the nude.

I listen to music on my radio which is next to my bed and it starts at 5:45 a.m. Then I finally get up at 6 to shave my face. I usually take a shower at this time but because it is cold I have not been doing so at this time.
I already have a bad cold with a running nose. After shaving I then get dress and then get ready to go downstairs for my breakfast. I usually am there at 6:30 a.m., the other brother Albert is also there and he eats fast. He works with young men in a carpentry shop on the other side of town and he says that it takes almost an hour to get there.

This week due to the cold weather the schools are closed for another week. It should start warming up again in a week or so. Usually the weather doesn't stay at cold that long.

I went to Mass at St. John of God church at 8 this morning and then I go to a coffee shop to have some coffee and then I had to do some errands. We didn't have enough milk. We have guests in the house and it seems that they are drinking a lot of milk. They will be returning to the United States this coming Friday. They were former lay missioners of Maryknoll and they are here for a two week vacation.

I returned to Maryknollto get ready for a house meeting at 11:30 this morning. We have these meetings every Tuesday morning.
The discussion was keeping the front entrance to our property clean. At times its is neglected. The Brother who is in charge of the area is 78 years old and doesn't have time to keep the place looking nice.

After the meeting we had our lunch and then to take a nap. I was also asked to prepars something for the departure of our Brother Albert who will be retiring in the United States at th end of this month. We will have a farewell lunch for him on Wednesday, July 28th.

He leaves here on the 31st of July for New York on American Airlines.

We will have lunch at 12:30 p.m. on July 28th. He would like to have pork chops which will be roasted in the oven.

I then talked to your Brother Benny this afternoon and he said that he couldn't open the blog. And then I called you to tell you about the blog.

I am now falling asleep at 8:14 p.m. And so I will go to sleep now after reading the book on Thomas merton and the monastery or Gethsemani in Kentucky.

This is all the news that I have for now.

Have a nice day.
Frank