For the past week, Maryknoll Cambodia has hosted what we call an immersion trip, bringing a group from usually the United States and exposing them to the language and culture and people of Cambodia to help them get an idea of mission in this country.
Not much help…
Oops! Sorry!
Mr. Jan Frey in Germany, a long-time friend and reader of this website, sent me an e-mail noting that the link to Maryknoll Bangkok Meetings–3 (scroll down to 13 November) wasn’t working. I checked it out and found that I had prepared the page the link connects to, but had neglected to “Publish” the page after I completed it. It should be working now, Thanks, Jan!
Unusual Vehicles
Topics: Traffic Rules
In a country like Cambodia where there is little regulation or even a sense of discipline, anything goes. In terms of personal style like clothing, hair color, etc., it doesn’t much affect society, but the same easy-going style influences things like traffic where just about any kind of vehicle, with or without standard safety features, is fit for the road. Here are a few unusual vehicles that appear around Phnom Penh.
Going fast…
Maryknoll Bangkok Meetings–4
We had a short meeting session this morning and then everyone departed the Bangkok Christian Guest House–and Bangkok—for our mission sites all over South and Southeast Asia. Click here for scenes from the final day.
Maryknoll Bangkok Meetings–3
Today was half meeting to finish the agenda and half a Thanksgiving celebration to mark the US holiday two weeks early while we were together. Click here for scenes from today.
Maryknoll Bangkok Meetings–2
Today was a full day of meetings after our regional superior arrived in the morning from Hong Kong. The agenda was interesting and the day went quickly. Click here for some scenes from today.
Maryknoll Bangkok Meetings
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Every year the Maryknoll Society has a meeting of its members from Asia South, a grouping of countries which have only a small number of priests and brothers in each. Click here to see the trip from Cambodia to the meeting place in Bangkok.
Rest Stop….I’ll pass
I had to return by myself to Phnom Penh from the DDP annual staff meeting rather than with the group. I took a bus service and we made a stop halfway through the trip. Each company has an arrangement with the restaurant or shop where they stop, to allow the drivers to eat for free, etc.