During this past week, there was a big celebration in the town of Quarto Inferiore, where L’Arche Bologna is located just about 20 minutes outside of Bologna. The fest, Quarto di Luna, included specific events every day. Two events that we participated in as a community was the parade and the Open Day. For the parade, the L’Arche community formed a marching band. I had the pleasure of representing L’Arche Bologna by marching along the main street of Quarto Inferiore with my new community, loud and proud, banging on cow bells. The following day, L’Arche Bologna hosted an Open Day where we opened the gates to anyone in the town to come check out the community to get to know the members, eat some cake, watch performances, play with chickens and turtles, dance, and release balloons into the sky! It was a busy week preparing for and participating in the festivity but it sure was a lot of fun!
