Friday, September 26, 2008

Being Fed

Dinner is at 7 pm on Sunday pm. We settled in, and then walked up the hill to the tent where the "adults" are fed their meals and their bible study. We mill around, no one really being sure what or how this will be. Finally, 2 young women came out, and climbed up on chairs at the front of the crowd. One of them, Margarethella, asked for 10 people to volunteer to serve this evenings meal. They moved forward and accepted the plastic gloves. Then there was the call for 10 people to volunteer to wash up after. They were told the good news: they get to eat first. When 10 volunteers came forward (a little slower than the last group) then we sang a blessing, and the lines moved forward. You are handed a tray with a large bowl, a large spoon and a small bowl. The small bowl is for water. The large bowl that evening was filled with a scoop of lentil, potato and carrot stew with a little ham added. The rest of the meal included: a container labeled sweet white cheese which had some similarities to yogurt, a fruit that seemed a cross between an apple and a pear, a hunk of bread, and 2 sandwich cookies: large flat not too sweet biscuits with chocolate between. I didn't take pictures of the food, but a simliar meal may be seen here: http://picasaweb.google.com/magdalena.goryl/Taize06#5063424914684072914

There were lots of little flying bugs around, inside and out. No screens on the window, no screens anywhere that I could see.

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