Taize is the perfect place to meet people and make friends. Since Saturday until today, I have many of surprise meeting with some friends that I've met in Taize 3 years ago. With some friends, we already knew via FB that we will meet in Taize. But this surprise meetings occurs whenever and wherever the destiny wants, especially on the long queue for the meal.
Seems like every time I queued in the line for every meal (and I'm alone), I always met people and made friends. It happens in a very simple way; eye contact and smile. The universal pick-up line is "where are you come from?" is always work. The conversation even more become interesting after I said "I'm from Indonesia" and usually this statement raised another question. Even they're more surprise knowing the fact that I stay in Taize only for a week, but later on I have to explain the story behind it ;p
The other good thing is, if I already visited some European countries and I met people from that country, then I can share my experiences and my point of view about their countries. Such as today's evening meal in the line I met Romanian girls and they're quite surprised that I visited Romania two weeks ago. They even more surprised when I showed off some Romanian vocabularies which I learned. Yes, even for the Romanian themselves, they're quite surprised if there's someone visit their country because usually Romania isn't the "main destination" for vacation. So with this, I even more proud that I already visited this beautiful country.
My other highlight meeting is, there's this German guy whom I met in Cadole on summer 2008. That time he came to Taize with his 15 years old girl friend and they only stay for a week. We worked together collecting rubbish outside Taize. Me and my Argentinian friend on that time didn't believe that this 15 years old girl is actually 15 years old because she's quite tall. After they left Taize, we lost contact. Until a couple of days before I came to Taize, my Argentinian friend mentioned me on his comment on a photo of this "15 years old girl". Then this German guy somehow managed to found me on FB and added me as friend. Yesterday when I was queueing in a long distribution line for evening meal along with the other 2700 young people, a guy next to my right poke me and gave me a have-I-met-you-before look. Then I just greet him, "Have we meet each other before?", "Yes", "2008?", "Yes", "Tilleul?", "No", "Neva?","No", "Hm?", "The 15 years old girl?", "WHAAT?? You just added me as a friend on FB a week ago!". Ahahaha indeed the destiny has a good taste of humour.
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