got up early today to send a package to the girls in Taizé..
then got back to bed, started thinking about taizé, how cozy those rainy days are (well, everyday is cozy over there)..and you wear thos big knitted cardigans, and indian trousers that looks like your pyjamas, and in the winter-time, or any time really, you wear the socks your grandmother knitted for you, and matching gloves, and a really big scarf around your neck...
and after work you go inside for a hot bowl of tea (yeah they use bowls)..and then comes that famous rainbow, sometimes it's even double..and then the evening-prayer is so cozy, when the rain hits the windows, and the people are singing songs, lighting candles, sitting all over the floor...yeah it's a special place. Taizé


sources: maria bovenko, google, flickr

adieu

well,
I knew Lotten was gonna stay in Taize for a long time, and might go to Rotterdam to prepare the european meeting from september to January..
I'm starting to realize that probably it's the same thing with Javier, and I won't see him for another year either..
and now I think I have to realize that I won't see Rosa as soon as I thought either..
Suddenly, I don't like what Taizé is doing to me..


I miss my friends.

sunny days

so , today I went to a park nearby, it's the biggets park in my city & whenever the sun comes out, everybody goes there to lay in the sun, have picnic or do some kind of sport.
I met up with Gabriel, a portuguese guy doing a voluntary-year in our culture--house, we ate some pineapple, talked about taize (as he also goes there regularly) and then we went to see some movies made my documentary-film-students, who spent 5-6 months in brasil and uruguay..very interesting!!

boa noite!

gabriela

oh i just spent 20 minutes trying to get my microphone to work, or if it was gaby's that didn't work, we still don't know, but it all ended with 30 minutes of happy talking with my wonderful friend Gaby form Mexico! we got to know eachother in Taize when we shared room together, and so, we've been there together almost from the start. and she left only 2 days after me...

one day I'm gonna visit her. and we are gona eat loads of Quesadillas!!

zebra

as I'm not seeing Lola today (but tomorrow hopefully!), I had some more time to be in the shop making new clothes.
I started making something out of the zebra-print chiffon I bought the other week!
it's becoming a long, wavy dress, wich I'm thinking about wearing at the wedding, we will see. I'll show some pics when it's ready!

Now time for some mushroom-soup and then I'm off again!

Oh and today I called to Taize and I got to speak with Rosa for the first time since I left (except the letter, e-mails and messages we send everyday)..she started crying!! Oh I love her..

life in France

I really don't have anything interesting to write so,
I'm gonna show you some pics from my stay in Taize.
For you who doesn't know, to explain it shortly,
Taize is a community close to Lyon,France.
There are about 100 brothers of Taize, really open, fun and intelligent brothers.
They welcome thousands & thousands of people every week on "the hill" (it's surrounded by green hills and vineyards, pretty amazing view!) , and people come from all over the world to spend 1 week in communion with other people, it's a pilgrimage om trust.
Some people stay longer as volunteers, they are called permanents, and I've been a permanent 3 times, this last time was the longest for me, 8 months, and it was a beautiful experience to live so close to other people in such a simple way. Relationships mean so much more when you live like this. you work, eat and live together, and you mean so much for people, and they mean so much for you.



our commonroom from 2 different angles





some of the people that know's me as good as I do.
(how come I don't have a picture of me and Gaby?!)




for new years all the permanents went to Poznan, Poland, to prepare & attend the youth-meeting. we worked hard during the days, but every evening we used to meet in this Irish bar where they said that they made as much money as they usually do in one week, during three days, because of us.



more pictures another day