Paulus church
We entered the building and walked around for a bit, probably looking lost. There were few people at the ground floor, upstairs it sounded bussier. The space was quite light, the windows were big and the interior quite white. The space was filled with a couple tables and something that seemed like a small cofeebar. We saw a woman, it seemed like she worked there, and we asked whether we were aloud to walk around the building. The woman asked how much we knew about the place and she explained a liitle. She told us she would get someone for us who could give us a tour through the building. We sat down at one of the tables downstairs and waited for a couple minutes.
Then a man came up to us. I noticed he did not really ask who we were or why we were interested in the place. We followed him to the elevator. I asked whether they had a busy day. It was Easter and they just had had a curch service. He told about the building. This church used to be bigger but was now rebuild next to another big modern building, we saw outside. The architect called the church building a diamant, but most Rotterdammers call it the 'bitterbal' he said. Second floor. He pointed at a hallway with bedrooms behind a closed door. It was no longer theirs, the municipality regulated that part of the organisation since a while back. Only man were allowed to sleep over. We were suprised. He explained that when a woman gets homeless, there are special regulations to get her a safe place to sleep ass fast as possible. There are way more man living in the streets anyways, he said. He showed the space that functioned as church, but could also be used as place to rent for organising big and small events.
We went down by stairs. At the first floor, men were sitting, some together, some alone. It was getting bussy now, he explained, because soon they will hand out some free food. For coffee and tea they have to pay themselves. He unlocked a room, a space where creative activities are organised. We took a look inside and then he locked it again. We asked whether it was open for everyone to come in, whether they knew everyone here? No, they didn't know everyone. But sometimes he does walk up to people and see why they are here. when a woman or a young person walks in... Sometimes they put someone under a shower, or give him some new clothes. We walked in the direction of the stairs, some men were stairing at us. The room in the corner used to be the smoking area, that is forbidden now, it is locked. The man told us he was happy about it. We arived back in the entrance hall. We talked about clothes. He told us that they only need man clothing. We both have man clothing. He told us they already got quite a lot of clothing, we could better donate it at Leger des Heils. We thanked him for the tour and left the building.

Buitenplaats Brienenoord
We mailed whether someone wanted us to show the buitenplaats and tell us a bit about it. They told us we could come Friday morning. We replied we would come around 10:00. When we got there we only saw two Polish men walking on the roof. We walked around the building and sat down for a bit next to a spot with some BBQ gear. There was a big temporary fence around the building area. Besides the building they were working on there was a small attick with a lot of material and a parked caravan. We walked to the 'volkstuintjes', small gardens. We looked around but there were not many people there either. We got back to the Buitenplaats, still no one showed up, so we left.

A book about interventions and a magazine that Anne got from the pirate bay.