started after the glut of impressions of yesterday evening, we are now quiet in the day. After lunch at the convent, the sisters are expected at the Convention in only a few kilometers away in Vryheid.
In January 1955 Tues e Mallersdorf sisters were in the Mission sent to South Africa where they are named after their founder, "Nardini-Sisters." They built in the city Buren Vryheid a Catholic upbringing and education center. We were guests today in d he nucleus of the Missionsarb ince our sisters. One that was from the early beginnings of this, today's field matron sister Isentraud Rauscher to us yesterday was already in Maria Council Chitzen welcome. The 74-year-old was active there, which opposes Nardini as head of the school in 1978 apartheid laws had. She opened her school for blacks. The regime was threatened with imprisonment and the closure of the school. "I was just convinced that s we had to do as a Catholic school. I knew we had a good reputation and were attacking not so easy, "she says. The police also ventured nic ht , sister it to arrest and appealed to the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education finally confessed under many obligations to a small number of Zulukindern as a student. But the resistance in the whites of habitable largest city was great. "On the first day of stones flew against our windows. We had Grafitis to the house walls. But we have not given way. "Sister Isentraud ö been found for the house for all Zulukind 
he wanted to come and set it to white men without parents, their children from school to neh . "A father has now threatened to leave his two boys to not come to us. But passed the second day, third and fourth, and the boys ware s still there. Later I learned that the boys simply defies her parents have because they wanted to stay with us. "The archbishop of Durban, they had a brave fellow. Isentraud sister had not jailed, but the penalty s remained. For 13 years, remained excluded from all sporting Nardini School school competitions a reprisal, d ie for the sports-loving youth was difficult to accept. "When our school was broken into once, the police wanted the F inger take fingerprints of all black students. I said, you can take the fingerprints of the children, but of all, black and white. And they have to stop to explain the white parents. "So it did not happen. "It could be intimidated in any case," they can look back at this difficult time. The almost daily struggle against the apartheid regime is and remains their most impressive experience, though it inf has to tell me a lot. As invited her school after all these years for the first swimming competition was the first time and was allowed black children to go to the start, Isentraud sister had won the battle of the Nardini Sisters-.
is now visiting the School of kn app 400 pupils and students of different cultures and religions, with the proportion of the Zulus at around 90 percent. And the weaknesses esters are enthusiastically and with a noticeable green variables love for the children.
Although school holidays, we welcome some 15 children and adolescents . So here wait till the boys from Regensburg, with which they want to sing in the hall of the school together. In the chorus they crowd up 
cautious on the edge. Domkapellmeister Roland Büchner agrees on the piano the first bars of the South African national anthem and a smile flits over the children's faces. The joy of music can easily forget all inhibitions. Geme insam is sung, the children get closer. When Roland Büchner sink distributed footballs and jerseys as business , because there are only boys and girls who are happy together. The cathedral choir p ump on the balls help stall 
s the jerseys, and proud future world champions shine on the guests. Actually, yes, the school will still be visited, but it falls to this nage Lneu footballs in the hands sowoh l the local children as well as the cathedral choir difficult. Their impatience is really not hard to see. And they, when they adopted the mandatory program are , faster than we can look away. On the football field Zuluboys small dash in the Germany jersey over the place, the pool is immersed in the monastery and cathedral choir and the Nardini Sisters-kickers are a strong team in the competition against the Nard ini students, reinforced by men's voices. Almost unbeatable reveals sister Emanuela, a native Breitenbrunn Erin. Locker shuffles Bavarian and English words in their cheers. ripples
In dream green courtyard of the monastery, in the 1955 the first convent building was standing and now a Franzikusbrunnen between a four-meter high rubberwood and bright orange flowers strelitzias amid a colorful carpet of flowers, reports them from their work, thereby ensuring along the way to ensure that no child goes hungry or thirsty. Since 1985 them in Vryheid. On 28 August it is then come to the they remember exactly. "Des was pretty exciting. I'm no gflogn never before. Mei, i scho wos lifted g'wusst of the world. "She is happy here. A girl smiles at her. It tells of its history, "it's touching." Back to Germany - can not imagine more sister Emanuela. "Mei, probably it went, if it should be. But this size, nature, life here, de s scho impressed. "Vryheid is their new home. And since you agree with all their German sisters.
music, it then connects all the more the old and the new home, even when all 
take time to complete the colorful day in the school hall. A little girl walked resolutely into the circle of the cathedral choir and sets a brisk Zulutanz onto Par warp. The native American Western Nardi flight strip off their shoes, beginning to sing and take before the 's this bear, two Domspatzen with the dance.
And then there are the premiere before the premiere. As a thank you to the sisters for their courageous, determined and fulfilling work for the children of Vryheid they are the first listeners of the Canticle of Enjott Schneider, interpreted by the cathedral choir. And d he boys are to take them into all the fine nuances of mood 
n touch with the jubilant praise God. The dress rehearsal in the hall succeeds so well that we are really looking forward to tomorrow for the concert in the Abbey Church. "Thank you men," exclaims a beaming Domkapellmeister and is satisfied with the thumbs up. "This is something special, something wonderful," says Sister Isentraud. And the little monastery dog who has listened to the Franciscan singing in front of the stage waving, happy with his tail.
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