the five days meeting of the Pilgrimage of Trust is already over. it's wonderful how Don Bosco Technical Institute in Makati full of around four thousands young people came from fifty different countries and also different provinces in Philippines.
but for us, the volunteer who work in the parishes, seeing this is like seeing the result of our three months work. our sweat, our patience, our sacrifice, etc. those five days is like a releasing moment for us. after three months visiting them in their parishes, now it's time to see them gather together in one place.
and yes during the morning we still manage to visit at least two parishes to join the morning prayer and morning program in our own Welcome Centers. but the beautiful thing is on the evening since the volunteer and the coordinator of each Welcome Centers have a 6pm meeting every day during the five days meeting. with our own classroom for each volunteer, i met most of all the Welcome Centers' coordinators and hear their story about their morning activity. and i'm glad to see that finally they get to know each other and can hear how's going in another Welcome Centers. as you know, for me i'm very happy to connect every friend that i have so all my friends can know each other ;p
the other beautiful things is finally i can met most of the friends which i met two years ago in Taize. i'm so glad about it! and for me it's a sign of hope that wherever we are, we still can meet each other someday and somewhere. and it's encourage me to still keep saying "see you later!" instead of "goodbye!".
the common prayers also very beautiful. exactly before the prayer, as the other Pilgrimage of 
Trust, they played the bell sound in Taize, to remind the people that it's the time to pray together. most of the songs we sing it in Tagalog, and it's very beautiful. for me to sing a Taize song in another language it's like a sign of humbleness. on my first weeks in Manila, i'm not quite comfortable to sing it in Tagalog. but later i learn that the important thing is not the which language we used but the deepness of our heart to sing and pray it.
another beautiful thing is, suddenly Don Bosco Technical Institute transform into Taize village ;p because there's so many people and most of them are really kind. we can smile and greet to each other even we never met before! from that smile and greet, i get a lot of new friends!
but actually the pilgrimage of trust is not over until February 7th, 2010. the pilgrimage of trust is still continues in our own life. how we can keep in trust with ourselves, with the others, even in the most difficult situation. and yes i've experience all these things in these three months here. and all of it it's fruitful.
and for me, i'm really looking forward what will happens with my pilgrimage of trust after i go back in Jakarta.
