2nd week with the Buddhist Deligation and CHINAGORA

Well this week was just WOW, if I can say so myself. I was looking forward to this week just because all the kids were there and it was time to do some Dharma work. This was a different experience then last time in Europe. Everybody lived in a hotel and we had ceremonies every kind you could think of. There were so many amazing people that worked the whole day just cooking for everybody including the Dharma Masters and laymen. The first day all the kids were in the lobby waiting for the monks and nuns to arrive. Well it was midnight and finally they arrived but all our parents were on the first floor talking amongst themselves. The next day was just jammed pack starting with lunch. the lunchroom where we ate could not fit all the people that were there the first day. The kids had the jobs of making the tables for the whole assembly. Throughout the week we were all occupied and had our jobs to do. The kids went out for the first time to get some ice scream and had some fries. The students from DVS had to give a speech about the school and mostly all the European kids went up to talk but they pulled my sister out of the crowd and then my sister took me with her. That was so unexpected because my sister and I did not plan anything out. My sister did outstandingly well then I did not to good but it's alright. All the adults where worrying about the us and we were just bored out of our minds. We had a kids day out which we went to a Chinese supermarket were Kim Vinh got loaded with a lot of food.

Well few days after all this we had a trip with Dharma Master Heng Sure to go around Paris to site see. We went to the Lourve to see all the paintings statues and more. Everybody went to see the Mona Lisa and after a while we lost my dad and found him about an hour later it was so embarrassing but funny at the same time. After the Lourve we went to Notre Dame and went inside and it was astronomically big inside. After Notre Dame we went to this church which had an exquisitely graphic hall of stain glass and if you were there you would just be astonished. Well that was Saturday. The next day was an auspicious day because Dharma Master was transmitting the Three Refuges and the Five Precepts. Many people took refuge and a few took precepts but that was the last day the kids would be together because Thuc Hue and Nguyet would be going back to Holland because they were not going to Italy with us. This was the end of Chinagora and the Dharma Assembly.