Since we had no Uni this week because of our vacation , our Tuesday began with the first service in Deir el Salib this week, where some of us Caravanistas went with the boys to the garden, to the playing room or just entertained the boys down in St. Dominique by playing games or playing with the guitar for them. It was again great fun for all the boys as well as for us to spend the afteThis week we started our service as usual in Deir el Quamar and this time as well with the friendly support of some of our Lebanese friends. In the service we visited our disabled friends again in their different rooms, sang with them, danced, played the Bseine- Khalib Game and afterwards went with most of the girls for a little walk outside, where we picked some flowers with them. We ended our service again with the singing round. At the spiritual meeting we had this day an interesting talk with Father Thom about bad spirits and their influence. On Monday evening we had a visitor in our apartment: a good friend of Mathieu’s sister, who is working for the UN in Lebanon and who could tell us more about the work of the UN in the region and their mission in Lebanon. It was a very interesting talk for us and we appreciated her presence very much.

Wednesday morning we left our apartment in Naccache quite early to drive with our bus to Faraya. Not for skiing, as you might think but for preparing Chabrouh for the Caravancamp starting at the 10^th of April. So preparing and cleaning the kitchen, carrying mattresses, decorating the rooms with pictures, checking the storages, etc. were our tasks on this day.

Also at our service in Antelias we had again the great support of our Lebanese friends. This week we had again service in the 2^nd floor, where we made a long singing and dancing round, played Bowling, stop dance, and the Bseine- Khalib game with the boys. All in all we were able to make more different activities because of the bigger number of volunteers in the service, which caused obviously more fun, entertainment and attention for all the boys. At Thursday evening we invited our Lebanese friends to our apartment to celebrate the last evening together with Moritz, since he had to leave us to start his studies in Germany. So we had a nice last evening together with our friends in the apartment, where Moritz also donated Pizza for all of us. Later on some of us still went out to continue partying in Moritz favorite nightclub BO18.

Friday we had our last Caravan service in Deir el Saliib before our vacation and the two Camps we are organizing in Chabrouh. So we all used this last possibility for a while to spend a really good time with our Boys from St. Dominique and gave our best to make them feel happy and loved by spending our afternoon with them. We just will continue the service in the homes at the first of May because of our two camps and the week of Easter vacation.

Friday evening we Caravanistas had a nice last dinner, which Lucas and Moritz prepared as cooks in our kitchen (very delicious Spaghetti Bolognese), before we brought him on early Saturday morning to the airport. There we said goodbye to him in our way by singing some songs for him in the airport. We are all sad to lose one more of our friends before June and wish Moritz all the best for his studies and his plans for the future. Anyway we all will see each other again.

Caroline, Amelie and Matthieu also left on this morning for their trip to Jordan. We’re sure you have to tell a lot about your trip in the next blog and can’t wait to see you back in Naccache.

On Saturday the little rest of us left to Deir el Saliib to bring the boys of St. Dominique with the support of the Lebanese youth to the “Palm Sunday” Mess. It was a great success to go with the all nice dressed boys this day to church. Also some of their parents and relatives came to attend Mess and to spend this time with them, which is always nice to see for us since we spend a lot of time with the boys. After the Mess we took part with them in the procession and afterwards brought them back to St. Dominique, where we helped the caretakers with feeding the boys. In the following days many of the boys go for Easter vacation home to their families and are very happy about it as we are for them. Some boys already told us weeks before that they leave to their families.

On Saturday Mafi also arrived back from Germany together with her brother Alfons in order to bring our empty apartment back to life since Lucas and Maxi also left on Sunday morning to a hiking trip in the mountains and the surrounding of Sourat. Also Daniels parents arrive on this Sunday to spend a week in Beirut. But we will be united again as a complete group shoi shoi this week.