"Ho me Dareus ouk anthropos paideuetai" (A man who will not be mistreated is not brought up).
So this morning I jokingly Henri, the merry Latin and Greek teacher at the Séminaire in Walbourg, welcomed. Yes, yes, the teachers. I have last night but all in Séminaire put into a frenzy.
And how it happened: In
Wissembourg in Presbytère I've been thinking where I will sleep next. I really had no plan for the next pilgrim hostel on my list was 34 km away. Since the Pfarrsekretaerin had the idea to do to register in Séminaire in Walbourg. That is a Catholic Internet for girls and boys. While in France have just started the summer holidays, but that was just good, because this weekend a few teachers and students were there on Monday before anything is made. Because most are already gone away, is enough space was available. Therefore, it was said on the phone to come, I could. According Pilgerfuehrer are there from Wissembourg to Walbourg exactly 25 miles, so nothing special. So I said goodbye in Wissembourg, I thanked my hosts and went out. At first everything went too well. I was pretty soon in Oberhoffen and Bremmelbach, where I ate lunch by the stream Bremmel my, uh Bemmel. Wow, and then it was always hot and oppressive. I had again taken my liter of water, so were the 1.5 liter I'm really too heavy. But one liter was used up in quick Bremmelbach already. And in Retschweiler I can again raise anyone. Sometime in the afternoon I semi-thirsty come to Soultz-sous-Forets. Ha, again there was new water. Awesome! Well, I thought, can go on but you could. It's already afternoon, and by five, you will have done it. So back off in the afternoon heat. I had read in my guide that the abbey church in Walbourg looks so similar to those in Wissembourg, just a bit smaller. When she was five, I saw really as a church. You people also had such a church tower in the middle. Well, fine, so there you have it done. About time. I could not really namely. But when I got there, it turned out, that was just the abbey church of Surbourg. Oh man! I had totally overlooked that even the first is an abbey. Have then pitched the distance table in the guide and found that there are Surbourg Walbourg again after seven kilometers. I was quick and snoozed and still not there. Seven miles! And I had my 25 but determined already gone. I was first brought to the church and started to cry. At some point I then stood up and said to myself, well, does no good to the people waiting in Séminaire to you, so on. Somehow I have the rest then made it. I'm probably angetorkelt half in a trance, and I have my "Sali, J'aime Julie LaChapelle Merlot" moaned, yes, and then I was suddenly gone. Simply fallen over. * Pop *. How and where I have not even noticed. That was all too much. The way the oppressive heat, the effort, the thirst, the number of kilometers. Henri, the Latin teacher, has created two strong students who have put me on the next couch. Since then I came back to me. Then got his eyes opened and simple "Bonsoir," said. And as everyone laughed.
Yes, that was my arrival in Walbourg. My appearance must have made quite a impression. Henry ordered the next day I can go no further, but I must rest for now. Then I was infused tea. I said yes to everything. Sure, I have no objection. The evening was with me really what to do anymore.
The two boys who have put me on the couch, I learned then the next morning at breakfast about. Shy they were at first a bit pressured, located near around from my seat and did not know if they should address me. Finally they came and introduced themselves, but as something of perfect form, I tell you, that would have our guys never hammer out. Christian and Frederic hot, the two have just completed the eleventh grade next year and make their Bac, like Abi is in France. So Baccalauérat actually, but as we say instead of Abi Abitur say the French Bac. The Bac is much more stressful than in the exam, because it consists of twelve tests. We have preliminary marks for that flow. So, I think, is with us the looser.
I do not know if Henri had asked the guys to see to it that I do not run away. In any case, the two not left my side. She told me that there are really 30 kilometers from Wissembourg to here. They were pretty awesome, so much to go in this weather. I think, however, were not much after the show, I had put down yesterday evening.
With Christian and Frederic I went walking in the school parking lot and we have about Germany, France, Alsace, Europe, and our school systems said. I've learned a lot. Have become but also thoughtful. For Frederic committed in an organization that Jeune Alsace, Alsace young, ie. The is the youth organization of a party that campaigns for the independence of Alsace. Instead of a Europe of states they want a Europe of regions. Therefore, they have contacts with the Basques in Spain, the Serbs in Kosovo, the Lega Norte in Italy and other movements. Frederic has taken a great album in which he has documented the actions of the Jeune Alsace. Since photos are in it, draw on those young men with Alsatian flag, as there are slogans for a free Wasgau from Alsace to the Rhine, the mother party is called Alsace d'abord, so Alsace about everything. And they sing the song flags: "Red White and I am faithful unto death." Or something like that. Hm, well. This reminds me of everything a little too much something completely different. I want to offend anyone, and maybe I'm lying all over in my opinion, wrong. For the Alsatians have in their history must always take part and many have been moved around constantly. And only the second day I'm here to be a player does not work. But somehow I find the style that occurs, the Jeune Alsace, oppressive. And I can not really imagine that the Jeune Alsace really interested for the fate of the people in Kosovo. If someone speaks of Europe of the regions, he says most of his own area. I think.
Actually, I was very glad when the conversation was terminated because Henri appeared to invite me on a tour of the abbey church. The Romanesque church was at first, because it is the parents of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, which are also buried here, have been donated. Then they fall apart, however, and built up again later Gothic. As in Wissembourg are again beautiful glass, made by the Master Peter of Andlau. Henri has been on a pair of binoculars with which I could see the windows very well. These are great scenes of the Last Supper, the Way of the Cross, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. Henri explained that no longer Gothic, Renaissance, but already is. And because of the colors, "Composition" and the perspective. Henri knows an incredible amount about it and can explain it better than me.
After lunch Frederic has been picked up by his parents, so I stayed with Christian alone. Christian is very different from Frederic. It is not as convinced of one thing, not as unconditionally as Frederic. The independence of Alsace, for example him total care. He has a looseness that I like well. We are again in the afternoon went to the Abbey high and we laid there on the lawn, just to see the blue of the sky. When then came a couple of clouds, we have always invented new words to describe the clouds. In French and German. That was really funny because there's always something, lasted until one has figured out what the other said. Christian can make totally useless stuff. I find great.
My violin was also included. Christian leaned against the wall of the church, as I practiced my improvisations, and gave his comments in this regard. These were really good tips. He said, namely, there are a lot of purely packed too many different melodies in my pieces. He certainly has that right.
So, as you see, it was a very relaxed day. Has done really well. And I think I am now again so very hard for that tomorrow I can go on.
Bisou
vôtre Julie
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