June17* Oyak?!

2010.06.17 Thursday Day4
A GOOD NEW DAY! :)

0745 woke up for morning prayer then having breakfast! :D

This table is for putting our food, normally we might have french bread and milk on it.

and everyone is preparing the meal.

N' toumi view

1000 going to Bro. Maxime's bible introduction! I like him so much! Quite funny and talkative and handsome... haha but he is a Brother :P

After he talked about the bible verses, he asked us to take a place to silent, I chose to be at church!

I read about the bible verses in church, and few minutes later, I fell asleep! :P

Many people was sleeping with me in church, was so peaceful and comfortable :D

And when I wake up, it was midday prayer!!! :P haha...

After lunch, 1400 I joined my first song practicing. NICE! Learnt some Taize songs!
And I got to know Sarah, she taught us how to sing.
She is so great as she can sing very well and can get the note from the tuning folk accurately! Amazing!

Took some picture before supper, this is the view inside my room.

This is N'toumi 2/F the way toward common room

Where was the cat came from? Someone said it's owned by Brothers?!

It's lovely! But I saw it jumped onto my roommie's bed! :P

After supper, someone asked me to write a birthday card for someone...

actually it's quite hard for me to remember others' name in my first few days.... :P

Very grateful that could get to know you all my lovely girls. The 1st pic for us! :D

From left to right: Elli(Germany), Karo(Germany), Tjitske(NL), Roisin(Scotland)

Kat from Singapore! So great to have you as you can speak Mandarin! :D

View outside N'Toumi

Zoomed view outside N'Toumi

It's still a mystery for me where people going after prayer...

The back of the church still not in use in June

I couldn't meet anybody that I knew even in common room!
I walked around and hope I could meet someone....

El Abiodh at night

I would like to find out the answer, so, after evening prayer, I went to Oyak!

I didn't think girls would be there, just try and explore~~~~

WOW~ someone playing something seems awesome!

Many young-ages love to be in Oyak after evening prayer 

They gather together and play and sing and laugh and seem like have load of fun! :D

At last, I couldn't meet anybody that I knew in Oyak.

I wanna play with them! But I was scared to play with strangers...

Anyway it's still funny to have a look! :D

This night, I went to bed at 2300. :)

June15~16* Taize's Mystery

2010.06.15 Tuesday Day2

How come jet lag is so ignoring! I went to bed around 21xx the day before, but still missed my 1st morning prayer. I woke up around 0900 by my roommate, and had my first breakfast in N'toumi.

Everything was not very real to me. After my breakfast, around 1000, I had a meeting with Sr. Elke.

Sr. Elke is a sister of St. Andrew and was working in Taize. She took care of Asian girls who lived in Taize for longer time.

So for that reason, she dated me in El Abiodh and walked around with me.

Inside El Abiodh

Sr. Elke told me many things that I should know and pay attention, such as what time for prayers, where to have bible introduction, where to join song practicing, how to use the phone card, how to use the washing machine, even every inch in N'toumi she explained very clear...... haha...

But jet lag was still affecting me, although Sr. Elke is so nice and pretty, although I had already slept for 12 hours, she told me such a lot information with ENGLISH, it was really really hard for me in my first day.

I felt soooooooooo sleepy =.=

So, as I was free then walked around, and felt tired again.
I had a afternoon nap after my first midday prayer in Taize and lunch.

When I woke up, it was supper time! Eating again :P
And After evening prayer, have a shower, went to bed AGAIN! =__________=

This is my second day. :D

June14* The Adventure to Taizé!

2010.06.14  Monday  Day1

When I arrived Lyon airport, it was around 1100, I expected there was a people holding a paper or sign to let me know they were gonna pick me up to Taizé.

But, God love make joke to me, when I arrived, there was NO ONE pick me up. I searched around the gate few times and there was no one seemed like waiting for me, and I thought maybe they were late.
So I wait and wait and wait......

Half hour later, I decided to buy some food, the first thing I brought in France - Salad! :P

And I wait and wait and wait inside near the gate, there was still no body came.

2 hours later, around 1300, I stepped out the airport and keep waiting...

I was not scared at all, I just thought that maybe I could arrive Lyon smoothly and peacefully, God gave me a little trail, so I had to have faith in God! 

Around 1400, I decided to call Taize community, but I didn't know how to use the phone box... Luckily a Franch man helped me. :) However, no one answer.......

Finally, I decided to use my HK phone no. to call Annie (Who arranged my trip to Taize) for help, but we could only talk for few minutes due to not enough money in my phone card....

Just then, when I was finding a value-added card for my phone in my bag, SOMEONE CAME and ASKED me: "ARE YOU GOING TO TAIZE?" 

I was sooooooo excited and touched!!! I gave her a hug hardly and said : "THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!"

There were 2 girls picked me up to Taize. However, I was not the only one, we had to wait for a boy called Sergio, my first friend in Taize and arrived at the same day with me.
But there was some problem of his journey to Lyon, so his arrived time delayed more than we thought.
Finally he arrived around 1530 and, in total, I waited for almost 5 hours in the Lyon airport... haha...
A girl lead us got on the car and drove us. WOW! FINALLY! GOING! TO! TAIZE!

I had not slept much and due to a long travailing time, I fell asleep in car. And after 2 hours, around 1745

ARRIVED TAIZE!!! It just like DREAMING!!!!!!!

I search Taize in Google map before I went there, when I arrived and seeing the same shot but in real,

I felt sooooooo AMAZING! :D

WOW I used 24 hours for traveling! so crazy! But everything is worth!

The first one I met in Taize is Sr. Elke, she look like an angle. :) 

They welcome me in El Abiodh, with Taize tea and cookies! :D

Afterward, a girl from N'toumi (girls' living place) called Joé helped me to pick the luggage to my room! She looks so strong in my first impression! :P

And have some time to settle down, Sr. Elke told me what the most important things were, like where to take shower/ take meals/ sleep.

At 1900, first supper in N'toumi!

But still, felt soooooooooooo tired after travelling and had some jet lag, I had not join the first evening prayer. Took a shower, then went to bed around 21XX. :)