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whole year is coming to an end for me in Israel. One year, I had originally anticipated with excitement and my expectations then surpassed it has. If you look back, then one realizes how much is still happening. I leave taken in Jordan, have experienced Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, had wandered through deserts, was swimming in the Mediterranean, have followed many footsteps of Jesus as a pilgrim and and and. Certainly there were ups and downs, with good and bad days, but in the end, forget everything. I have learned the location Tabgha with all its inhabitants, especially the Benedictines, love. Tabgha is a place that exudes a certain force that has something B Eruh and gives you the feeling to be close to the gospel it. Up close the faith! You live here a calm and balanced life. A life in the monastery, which was different than life in Germany and for me, and I will certainly miss. I have a new country can sniff and its various cultures and landscapes and have met new friends. I have a whole year with the different seasons experience which revealed very different images and impressions allowed. Yes, I can honestly say that I have made this country despite the many problems in my heart. "The man grows with his duties." That is a well-known maxim. I am not the only country in the heart to Germany, no, I'm grown, grown on a task. For me as a person, it was after school, certainly an important year. A year that I do not want to miss and I can only put each to the heart. Now I go to meet many new duties, but the "old" Tabgha I will not soon vergessen.Am end I just want to again say thank you. Thank the Location Tabgha and the Benedictines, who welcomed me so warmly and I will never forget. Thank you to the "Tabgha Family", the Filipino nurses, thanks to which we have felt really at home. Thank the German Association of the Holy Land, gives us young men the opportunity to expand our horizons. Thanks to all the people I have encountered this year that have shaped me and accompanied on my way ... " from my newsletter 9.8
