| Thursday, December 3: Day one |
A short quiz on maths, geography and... imagination!
Knowing that:
the delegation from Mauritius is made up of Queenscey, Alan and Owen, accompanied by Tillie and Marie-Ange,
that they speak French, English and Creole, that their friendship vehicle is a truck which looks like the ones used to carry sugar and has got an accordion to which other carriages can be tied to accommodate new passengers,
the Bolivian delegation (who came with Fabiola) is made up of Claudia and Wilmer, that they speak Spanish and that, on top of their many treasures,
they have also brought along traditional clothes,
Ninon, Laurane, Manon and Kyliane, accompanied by Patricia and Marlène,
have brought a friendship vehicle guided by swallows, a dazibao from Les Joyeux Délurés (’The Happy Smart Ones’), ’galettes’ (cookies) from the North of France and ’papillotes’ (chocolate sweets) from Savoie,
Angela, Alyanna and Justhine have beautiful voices, a youth worker called Eric,
stitched silhouettes, are fluent in Tagalog and English,
Sinead and Emma accompany Edel, Adrienne and Chloe who will tell us
the story of Cara ("friendship" in Irish), who is their friendship train’s
driver,
Nils (the master in Kapla building art) and Anastasia know the beautiful house in Treyvaux very well because they sometimes go
there with Tapori groups in Switzerland,
Nathalie, Thaddé and Julien on the one hand, Olive and Faustin on the
other, represent the 150 children and the 20 youth workers of the 6 Tapori groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
that the treasures they brought remind us of how important family, peace and school are,
Sebastien, Marta and Patricya have brought from Poland a train entirely made up of treasure boxes,
and that Anka et Weronika also sang and mimed the song for all,
there is a whole team people of different nationalities who take photos, translate, cook, fix various stuff, give support,
Can you tell: How many children and adults there are on these first days of the meeting? From how many continents they come from? How many languages are spoken in this big house? How many kilos of rice did our super cooks prepare for today’s lunch? How many snowballs will be flying around in the fields? We are thinking of all of you who are reading our news in the four corners of the world.





