The meeting on Sunday 25th February was as if the River Ganges had run wild!
The short speeches by myself, a thanks to Kasia for adding so much life to our CHAFF Group, and a very short reply by Kasia, had all of us in tears.
It is so sad to see one of our CHAFF participants leave.
We wept when Subramaniam Paneer Selvam, Anais Guimard, Michaela Tomasovska and Kerstin Schewe left to return to their homes so wide spun as Tamilnadu in India, France, Slovakia and Germany. Seeing Kasia leave us to return to Poland was equally heart-breaking.
The THAI buffet food served up by PAILIN was really wonderful. Our waistlines are showing this.
As CHAFF, we gave Kasia a beautiful carved soap by Thai-Finnish artist Ann, along with a signed hand-made card by the same artist. As usual, I gave a 1 cent and a 2 cent Finnish Euro series coins which she can preserve for her grandchildren as they are collectors items. Pentti gave Kasia a CD about GNLD and also a container of tablets for preserving general health.
The meeting was well attended. We had a new participant, Juha, who is a Finn who specialises in Japanese History at Oulu University.
Ildiko (Hungary), Benjamin (Australia), Tingting (China), Soda (Thailand), Unnop (Thailand) and Pailin (Thailand), Pentti (Finland), Juha (Finland), Kaija (from Kempele, Finland), Sylvan (Ivory Coast), Mona (Finland), Andi (Venezuela), Ashesh (India), Indu (India) and Karthik (India), and myself (Findia) attended this farewell meeting for Kasia (Poland).
Several sent their farewell messages through me as they were unable to attend.
The next meeting will be next Sunday at 13:00 hours at the Pailin Restaurant, Kenttätie 9, Kasarmi Area.
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