One Year Ago : The Graffiti Cleaner

for English translation,

280708, Lundi

wake up, morning prayer, breakfast, and ready for my first job in Taize!

go to Point 5, meet Zuzana the Queen of Point 5. the graffiti cleaner for this week is me and Helion from France. she gave us our equipment; a bottle of alcohol, sandpaper, and gloves. then she gave us a little brief about our job for today. it's quite simple, to clean graffiti all around Taize, either on the wall, benches, even inside toilet.

after we took some of unused newspaper in La Morada, we ready for the battle! after one hour for walking around and scratching and cleaning, it's true that the most graffiti area is toilet :( especially boys toilet, on the door or on the wall. yeah i know the excitement of your "nature calls" in the toilet while you write some poetic sentences on the wall or on the door. but doing this job made me realize that we have to put some respect on every facilities to keep it clean, well in this case is not ruin it with "timo was here" writing. ;p

but i'm really proud of this kind of job because two of us is a kind of hero in Taize. of course, if we saw some writings ANYWHERE, we will CLEAN it. and we are the only two of us in Taize. imagine, with only two people, we can make this hill more clean than it was ;p the best part is when we enter the toilet that closed for a while by Point 5 Toilet Cleaner Team, we can enter it with a privilege by yelling "EXCUSE ME, GRAFFITI CLEANER!" with a bottle of alcohol, sandpaper, newspaper, and gloves in our hands ;p

11.00 our work is done for today. play chess with Helion at Tilleul's common room. i lost.

midday prayer, lunch.

hang out in the common room, playing guitar and singing along, to spend time until my afternoon work.

14.45 go to Cadole. today our job is to collecting rubbish until the next village. the Cadole workers for today split into three teams. my team went to Bray, Anka from Germany, Jongki from South Korea, Jadoga from Poland, and Irene from French. it's amazing, five people with five different nationalities ;p

after the work has done, back to Tilleul. take a shower and a quick sleep until supper.

after supper, play chess for a while with Pablo. and today isn't my day for play chess, i lost again.

evening prayer.

























graffiti picture taken from here.