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This week saw a gathering of Asian Deaf Catholic people in a retreat center outside of Manila in the Philippines. Today was a travel day for those, like me, who had to make an overnight trip of it. Click here for a few photos from the journey.
Greetings…. I just arrived back in Manila from the second Asian Deaf Catholic Conference near Tagaytay City outside of Manila. It turned out that the wi-fi there didn’t work–the signal was just too weak–and even my data connection on my smartphone wouldn’t work in that remote area. I have now arrived at the hotel in Manila and am using their wi-fi so I can send this preliminary message and then get to work. I just downloaded 247 e-mails to respond to from the last four days of no connection. If you sent me something, I’m getting to it! Please be patient!
I’m in the Philippines for an Asian Catholic deaf conference. The trip was rather routine and even enjoyable until I actually got here. More about that tomorrow when I start documenting the trip. Getting through immigration was a trip and then the taxi couldn’t find the hotel. But I’m here now and because it’s so late, I’m going to bed. More in the morning.
Today was a travel day from Siem Reap where we had our annual meeting to Kampong Cham, Kampot, and Phnom Penh where are centers are located. Click here for pictures from the trip to Phnom Penh.
This was the second full day of our staff meetings and the morning was full of discussions. But the afternoon saw some special recognitions and then a trip to Angkor Wat and to the tourist area of Siem Reap. Click here to see some photos from the day.
Today was the first of two full days of reports and discussions. Click here to see what we did.
The DDP staff came from Phnom Penh, Kampong Cham, and Kampot today to a reflection center in Siem Reap, the home of Angkor Wat. Half the day was travel but then we got into our agenda. Click here to see our journey and the meeting beginnings.
I was on the road to the airport by 6:00 AM this morning, flew out of Taipei at 8:45, and was back in Phnom Penh at 10:30 AM. Click here to see a few photos from an uneventful trip.
The day started out at the Franciscan retreat center, made a trip up into the mountains to a shrine, and then ended back in Taipei where the Hong Kong pilgrimage ended. Click here to see pictures from the various places.
After breakfast at the retreat center we board the bus for a long, twisting journey up into the mountains where we visited an aboriginal parish and ate with them. Then we came down the mountain, ate supper, and returned to the center for a second night. Click here to see the day’s journey.