Today all the DDP staff headed south to Kep Province to Shalom Valley center for our annual staff meeting. The bus ride took about five hours with stops and problems with the mud. Click here to see the day.
DDP Annual Staff Meeting–1
USA Trip — #11
I confused myself and forgot to put up this last post about the last day in Kentucky and the return trip to Phnom Penh. Click here to learn more.
The right direction…
For 30+ years Maryknoll lay missioners and brothers and sisters and priests have gone to Bangkok for medical treatment that just wasn’t available here in the kingdom. Things are changing now as is evidenced by this sign informing people that now another procedure, blood dialysis, is available at the Russian Hospital.
E-mail woes…
While I was in the US, my e-mail client (the software that I use to read and write e-mail) got corrupted and I have been fighting with it ever since. The software puts markers on e-mails that have arrived and flags them as read, deleted, etc. Somehow the markers got scrambled and I have not been able to view some of the mail that I downloaded to the computer but now cannot display. I’m sorry if I haven’t answered something you sent me!
USA Trip — #10
Yesterday I was mostly at my sister’s house doing some work. Today I was mostly on the road all day. Click here to see some of stops I made.
USA Trip — #9
Monday in Kentucky
My main activity centered on lunch and dinner today. Before and after those meals, I was able to do a lot of work on the computer. Especially I need to prepare a homily for next weekend since I will get in to Phnom Penh late Friday afternoon and have to preach the next day.
At lunch time I met with a group of former seminarians from St. Thomas Seminary in Louisville. They were students a couple years after I finished there but I have known them, especially through David Browne, my brother-in-law who was in that class with them. We had a really enjoyable lunch with them and their wives.
USA Trip — #8
Sunday Family Gathering
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Today the main focus was on a gathering of the Charles-and-Martha Dittmeier children–and their children and grandchildren—for an easy-going pleasant Sunday afternoon together. Click here for some scenes from the day.
USA Trip — #7
Saturday Meeting and Travel Day
The MKLM board met for a half day and then at noon I headed for JFK airport and the flight to Louisville, Kentucky to visit my family. Click here for scenes from the day.
USA Trip — #6
Friday Meetings
Today was the full day of board meetings which were held at the Maryknoll seminary building. Click here to see the activities of the day.
USA Trip — #5
Well…. A congruence of impediments has kept me from posting here since last Monday. The first few days it was lack of time. Then I left my camera in New York with the photos I wanted to post here. And then, on the road back, I tried to post and found that some security functions didn’t recognize my newer laptop and wouldn’t give me access to my own website. Now I’m finally back in Kentucky and will give a quick post today and a fuller one tomorrow using the few pictures that I have on my phone since my camera didn’t accompany me to Cambodia. This picture is in my room where the temperature was 34ºC when I walked in Friday afternoon. That’s 93ºF. When I was in the States, both New York and Kentucky were in the 60s and 70s which was so nice…