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Every year during “Hemelvaart” (Ascension Day) the citizens of Rotterdam are offered to join a variety of several projects in different parts of the city. We took this oppourtunity to serve one more time our beloved city of Rotterdam by joining a gardeing project.

Arriving early on Friday morning we were greeted friendly with “koffie of thee”, introduced to the campaign “serve the city” and after some socializing with the people the work started. The group was divided in several teams and sent out with gloves, gardening tools and motivation to the homes of elderly people who are not able anymore to take care of their garden themselves. As soon as we arrived my team started clearing a way in the middle of the garden, removing weeds and cleaning the stoney ground. It was hard work as we could tell by our aching backs, blistering hands and sore muscles but also really enjoyable work as we had nice talks with people, cheering sunshine and our goal, to do something for these eldery people, clear in our mind. Bit by bit the overgrown jungle turned into a nice and green place of peace and relaxing.

I think, in the end, we could be really pleased with our end result and eat happily our deserved Turkish pizza together. Thank you nice people, thank you “serve the city”, thank you Rotterdam and thank you sunshine! :]

(kathi)

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