GRONINGEN - ZWOLE

It was good to see what the changes and development in The Netherlands, after 4 years I was in Indonesia. Together with Sr. Felisita and Bro. Thomas, we visited Groningen: Martini Toren, St. Josef catedral etc . In Zwolle,  we look at some new situation such as the centre park close by the train station,  the tower in Zwole and in the centre of city. See more: Sassenpoort; Peperbus; Het stadshuis Zwolle, Michael church...

HENGELO - ALMELO - AMERSFOORT THE NETHERLANDS

On 7 and 8 Oct 2005 together with Br. Thomas and Sr. Felisita we visited some places in the Netherlands.

It is nice that we still have time to go together this Saturday to Hengelo to visit Len. Fe also went to. We also went to Almelo to visit old student who lives there, Martha Winarti. She was very happy to meet us. Several times she asked me to visit her new house. She was so happy to meet us. She told everything about her past time when she studied at SMPS. Her young photos, etc! She has a loving family. So we spent our noontime at her house. At 17.00 we went back to Amersfoort. In the evening we had appointment to play canasta with other sister. Sunday, at lunch he saying goodbye to the sisters. Fel and I accompanied Bro. Thomas till Amersfoort station.

2005 VISIT TO Ste-MARIE CONVENT IN HUIJBERGEN

On the 29th October 2005, Felisita and I visited our Fransiscan brothers  in Huijbergen. We met Bro. Thomas to say godbye before he departed to Indonesia. But we believe that we will see each other again. It was a nice day to meet brothers Everardus, Leo, Mauritsio and Eduard. We got lunch together. I experienced the hospitality of the Brothers, the peaceful atmosphere of the convent, the chapel, the clean rooms and the nature around the convent  is a comfortable place for taking time for silent moment. 
The spirit of brotherhood has really lived in their way of welcoming the guests.
Thank you for your hospitality!
  

VISIT TO MAASTRICHT-HEERLEN AND LEUT (BELGIUM)

Sr. Melanie invited me to go to Leut to meet her fellow sister, who has the same name with me, Sr. Mariani CB. Jo and Monika brought me to Maastricht 10 Sept 2005. We spent the day to visit some places, especially to visit the house where the founder of congregation CB born in Leut- Belgium. The place seems like a castle. It was so. Sr. Melanie explained us the history of that building. It is a small village, but it is interesting one to see. Without planning we also visit the convent of Heerlen, where my friend Christin stays there and visited to the brothers of FIC Maastricht. It was a wonderful trip. 

SECRETARIAT TRIP 2005

Every year, secretariat staff (Zr. Margarita, Ans Billars, Riet van Leeuwen, Augustien, Paulien, Thera and I) spend one day free time to go out from our daily work. This year we visit some places in the surrounding Utrecht. This year we went out on the 30 of June 2005.Thera and Paulien cared for the arrangement. They really prepared all the things properly. We departed from Amersfoort at 08.30. Paulien drove the small bus of Motherhouse and picked me up at Ter Eem.

We passed Leusden, Maarn, Doorn to direction Driebergen to see Sterkenburg castle. We continued our trip to Langenbroekerwatering and Wijk Duurstede. We drank in Proeven. Then we went to Cothen and Groenewoudseweg. At 12.30 we took lunch in the Ossenwaard by ‘Kaasboederij Brienenshof’. We could go around the farm to see the cows. It was wonderful. We continued our trip via Werkhoven, ‘t Goy and Culemborg, Leerdam, Leerbroek, Niuweland, Noordeloos and Schoonhoven.

In Schoonhoven we visited Silver and Clock museum. It is a very interesting museum. We could see many styles of clocks from many years in the past and the modern style. As usual we took dinner as the closing of our day. This time we decided to go to 'de Lek'. The special of this restaurant was that some of personnel are handicap people. Here we thanked to each other, especially to Thera and Paulien for caring us to know the old building and place of the Netherlands. I really enjoyed this trip. At 20.00 we went home.

WENT TO VECHT THE NETHERLANDS

A day out with the Ter Eem community!

Every year my community has one day for outing together by bus. In this year we went on 18th May. We went to de Vecht. It belongs to the province of Utrecht. There we continue our program by booting through the river ‘de Vecht’. It was around one and half hour. Then we went to village to village. The nice things that I really enjoyed of this trip were that we passed some small villages. Sometimes we could see heritage of the Netherlands in the past time. There are many old houses, historical buildings etc on the way to one village to the other village. Some people keep their old style, so we can recognise how they live a long time ago. It is very simple but it is very artistic. At the closing of our day we had a delicious dinner to thank to one another that we got a wonderful day to experience. But the important thing of the day is that we together enjoyed our togetherness as a community