After an exciting night in which a number of us saw an elk walk throught the quiet streets of Mariehamn (did it really happen or was it in their dreams the others wondered) another sunny day full of activities and impressions started.
I myself, Carina W, was working in the kitchen together with the Italian Marco (see picture). It was our duty to make sure that everybody would be fed and would have enough to drink. So we made coffee and tea, let the machine do the dishes, did the shoppings and prepared food and cleared up the mess. Britt-Marie was our guide and gave us any advice that we needed.
In the meanwhile outside a lot of scraping, oiling and painting was being done to make the Emmaus building look shinyer and fresher than ever before. In the picture at the left her you can see Gian Luca happily painting one of the doors.
The result was astonishing. An there will be more to come!
And then another part of the group tried to work themselves trough the ever growing heap of clothes that are being brought in daily. W're all really suprised about the amount of clothes and other things that are being given to Emmaus by the Åland people, as there are only 27.000 inhabitants.
The second par of the afternoon we all helped prepare the evening diner. This would be a meal fot both the summer camp people and the local Emmaus workers. So the terras had to wept, a lot of food had to be prepared and the tables had to be organized.
The result looked very nice. We sat down at the tables, we enjoyed the food and talked. And before the desert was being served (and while we saw the ice cream melting) we all introduced ourselves: our names, where we come from and what we like most about Emmaus. And so we found out that people can have very different reasons to work for Emmaus or to join an Emmaus Summer Camp. For some people Emmaus feels like a special family, where people from many different backgrounds work (and live) together. For others the recycling part is very important. For many Work Campers meeting other people is the main reason. For many of us it's very important that Emmaus is not only an idea, but most of all it is an organisation that really works. An organisation where people can work happily together.
In the picture below you see Britt-Marie Lundberg on the left, Prcka in the middle and chairman Birger Lindholm on the right.
In the other picture on the right you see the French Leo enjoying his ice cream.
After all these nice words we ate our melted ice cream and we could look back at a satisfying Emmaus Summer Camp Day.
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