Danielle Alio

Today I will be traveling to Ecuador for an immersion trip with other students from Cabrini that will last the week. We will be staying at a retreat house with Rostro de Cristo and living and interacting with the people there. We will be living simply much like the natives who live on about two [...]

The fall semester of 2011 has flown by as quick as it came in August. I have been pretty busy as always and it’s very hard to believe that I am in my senior year of college. A very interesting project that I worked on this semester was a documentary-style video on the Chester County Youth [...]

The past two weeks I have been posting about my mission trip to Asia with the Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers. I am now back home in Pennsylvania and can not be more thankful about what I learned and experienced on this trip. The different experiences in Taiwan and South Korea that I have been privileged [...]

Today was my last full day in Seoul and last full day of this mission trip. We had an amazing experience this morning and that was going to a Korean mass said by a newly ordained priest. He was just ordained last week and this was his very first mass. We sat near his family [...]

Day six and seven of my mission trip with Maryknoll to Asia was traveling to Seoul, Korea, meeting the wonderful Maryknoll priests who live at the house and doing some site seeing. Today was a very interesting and a once in a life time experience. We took a tour of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North [...]

Today we got the opportunity to tour Taipei with Father Joyalito and visit important landmarks in Taiwan’s history. Two memorials we visited were the the Sun Yat Sen Memorial and the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial. Both of these memorials have Honor Guards present 24/7 who are specially selected from the military. What I mean by specially [...]

Today we visited Father Cuong and his center for the Vietnamese migrant workers just outside of Taipei. It is a shelter that is geared towards helping injured Vietnamese workers win their case against their employers for the compensation they deserve. The Vietnamese like the Filipinos go through the broker system to get work but the Vietnamese [...]

Today we visited Maryknoll’s Sister Marvie at her Good Samaritan Shelter for homeless women in Taichung. She and the others who work with her travel around the city to find where the homeless women are staying in order to reach out a helping hand. The women can come to the shelter to sleep over night. [...]

Today we got to celebrate mass with the Filipino migrant workers we met last night at the dinner and Father Joyalito. In addition to those we met there were many more migrant workers in attendance for mass. The church was packed so much so that there were many people who had to stand. I would [...]

Finally made it!! I just had my first full day in Asia. We left Maryknoll on July 7th at around 10:00 am (EST) and caught our 13 hour flight to Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan at 1:55pm.  The flight was very long and tiring but I could not keep from looking out the window as we [...]