not lazy but very busy

I was not lazy, I worked a lot in the last weeks. My house is painted new, I work hard in school and spent a weekend in Italy.

The owner of this nice restaurant on a campingground gave us a lot of apples as a present.

9 years ago we founded a charity project in Kempten. It is a big house where you can use the craftsrooms for wood (carpenders), metal, cooking, pottery, children..., rent rooms, make parties. We have a big warehouse for used furniture and a lot of workshops. Look at

www.kempodium.de

Last weekend we were invited to visit an similar projekt in Bozen South Tirol in North Italy -Manu. It is only 250 km from here and we spent a wunderfol inspiring weekend.

On Sunday we visited a path through the forest high above the village Lana. There feltmakers made at a worldfeltcongress sculptures for the forest.

There I found the sculpture of my hungarian feltmaking teachers and friends Mari Nagy and Istvan Vidak.

This is our group with a sort of traditional Marterl from Mari made of felt. We enjoyed some more days of summer. But now I am back in the Bavarian autumn.

Here the view to Meran. The mountains are higher, it changed a little on this photo-- a miracle

At the 14.th September the school started again.

And I l o v e it. It is so much fun to work with the children. I have a lot of mathematic lessons this year and to hear that the children suddenly find maths cool is so great for me. Next week we will create a a game where the children jump the multiplication. I think teachers in Germany are blessed. We have new and modern schools, a lot of equipment and earn a good money, have a lot of holidays a n d can make a sabbatical.

The only thing I don't like is all the paperwork.

I got a letter from Silia the lovely teacher of the school for special education in Tonga.

She asked me for some money ( about 35 Euro). To create Christmas presents made of tapa with the children from a whole school. Tapa is a traditional and rather expensive sort of paper made of the skin of the mullberry tree.I hope the posted money reaches Silia.

By the way. If you know physiotherapists or teachers or doctors for disabled or blind children who want to make holidays in the South Pacific. This school needs help and advice for some blind children. Make contact with me b_kluegel@gmx.de.

Birgit a little coughing