Graduation Day!

Our university program finished about a month ago, but today we came back once more to USJ - for our official graduation!! :-)

The president of the Lebanese Order of Malta, the dean of the faculty and the responsible for the Caravan program - they all came to celebrate graduation and goodbye at the same time.

Camel Camp II

Last weekend, once again, we had a wonderful camp in the Lebanese mountains, Chabrouh. This time we welcomed 15 girls from Deir El-Kamar for four days. All together we had a fabulous time in the sun playing lots of games such as Olympic Games and a beauty salon. Our guests – and of course ourselves – enjoyed it a lot and were very sad when this amazing experience ended, since it was the first time we spent time together with the girls and the last time we spent so much time with our lebanese friends.

The first farewell

We still have two weeks left in Lebanon, but the time of farewell has already started - unfortunately, Pedro had to leave us early!

And if that was not already enough, it was the night of the semifinal when Germany lost. So after having watched the game together with our friends we all left for the airport to say goodbye.

But still, we had a great and funny last evening all together - and we will meet Pedro again in Germany since he is going to pick the rest of us up!

Thank you, Pedro, for 6 wonderful months!!!

Meeting our priest...

Once a week we're meeting a priest to talk about a topic concerning faith, the bible or simply our week with the boys.

We found him by coincidence when he celebrated mass in our Philippino church and liked him so much that we asked him if he would want to be our "spiritual guide". Since he turned out to be a teacher and to live at the school Jamhour where we're doing sports, it was a perfect match and he couldn't say no. :-)

Baalbeck and winetasting in Ksara

Last Friday we did a trip to the Bekaa-Valley, a beautiful area between the two mountain chains of Lebanon. First we visited Baalbeck, one of the best preserved Roman temples in the Middle East. The village is in an area which is today controlled by Hizbollah, so like in the South we drove by a lot of yellow flags and pictures of Hassan Nasrallah.

But once inside the archeological site we enjoyed the amazing ruins (with a lot of breaks in the shadow of the pillars due to the extreme heat...) and took many beautiful but not so serious pictures (good that the Romans didn't know about that...)

In order to relax after this exhausting day we visited the vineyard Ksara which was founded by Jesuite monks in the 19th century and had a taste of the delicious wines there.