ESOL Magazine June 2014 | Page 29

she was only 8 month old, my mum, brother and his wife, my oldest sister and her husband who were our pilgrimage group’s tutors and about 20 other people. This wasn’t simple tour but it was pilgrimage, trip by bus for more than 30 hours through all Europe – from Latvia to Bosnia and Hercogovina. But we reached it successfully. And there I realise that it’s really Heaven on the Earth, there is so quite, people are so friendly and helpful, there not exist differences are you Latvian, Hungarian, Russian, Britain or Chinese, there are not white and black, there is something between. All spoke in different language but anyway they can understand each other. This village is in a rough area, there all around are big stoned mountains, but any way it looks so beautiful, so natural. Most famous of mountains are Cross Mountain or Krizevac also it is the highest mountain in the area. In 1933, the parish of St. James erected a large concrete cross to commemorate the 1900th Anniversary of Jesus’ passion and death on the cross. This mountain reflect Jesus trip to Golgotha, and every day pilgrimages from all world have done this trip and pray for themselves, their families, friends all world. This is a place where every year happen many miracles, many healings. Were we did this trip it was rainy day but we climbed in the mountain, the path was slippery. I made this trip with my daughter on a baby carrier and when we start it she become to sleep and woke up only at the end when we descend from the mountain. Wasn’t it a miracle? I think it was. There I experienced so many heavenly days and when I went home I felt I am another person, and that someday I will come back there. And I did. My next experience was on summer last year when I had an invitation to go to Medjugorje. I planned this trip with my 2 oldest children, but only the night before the trip I knew that it’s impossible to go there with ID Cards, but my children had only it. After what I decided that I can’t go without them, because there was a problem to leave them with, also I couldn’t imagine me without my children. But at the morning my oldest sister called me and told that she thought it was a God’s sign that I must go alone, for have a rest, to have a peace and to