Welcoming Marcel Ma’ah
August 22, 2008
Today is another preparation day for our visit to Les Barbery, St Bonnet-le-Troncy, Coutouvre and Jarnosse. The style was more of tutorial style, use the various sources, read and come back and share what we discovered. This proved to be “refreshing”, both senses of the word, in that it was another change in presentation style, and also it provided an opportunity to “brush up” once again, however this time the difference is that we knew we were going to visit these places.
A fact that seemed to skip our attention was that Jean-Claude’s mother Marie was only 13 when she married Jacques, who incidentally was 24.
The group was delighted to welcome Marcel Ma’ah this afternoon. Marcel was travelling from Africa and his Visa was only approved on Monday. Somewhat jet-lagged, without all the formal introduction process and with English somewhat unfamiliar to him the first afternoon proved some what challenging for him, however it is good that we are now complete in number.
This evening a new group is arriving, a large group, so much so that our dining room, which is much bigger than we need, has been taken over by the Apostles of Peace. From dinner this evening until they go, we’ve moved into one of the adjacent buildings.
While on the subject of dinner, the main course for supper this evening was very Lyonaise, a style of boiled salami sausage and potatoes in their jacket. Normally there is butter for the French loaf only in the morning, and so it was a surprise to see it on the table tonight. Those of us with Irish influence in our heritage immediately put it on our spuds, however the locals actually use it on the boiled salami sausage. Another little cultural learning point.
We also discovered TV tonight, along with CNN and BBC channels in English. Now with the Internet and these two international media giants the world all of a sudden seems a little closer.
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