This experience was done in Aguas Blancas, not far from Minas, and is part of the new Salesian vocational project called “We shall go halves”, which consists of seven concrete experiences.

Practically, “Do you know how to whistle?” proceeds like a camp for young men above 16, committed in the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM/MGS) and who consider religious life as a possibility. The venue was the “House of the Immaculate”, a retreat house located in the Uruguayan plateau.

The activities focused on the certainty that every young man has received a gift from God; hence every one must let God work in him so as to let his talent emerge and put it at the service of others.

The first meditation was about the encounter of Don Bosco with Bartolomeo Garelli – an episode that gives the name to the entire experience “Do you know how to whistle?”. “This was the trigger that let the youth introduce themselves”, said Fr. Alfonso Bauer, who is Responsible for Vocational Ministry.

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The project “We shall go halves” comprises six more stages: “The cloth seems good”, “Dreamer”, “I shall give you the teacher”, “She did everything”, “Happy in time and in eternity”, “I am well in your midst”.

“Avoiding to propose religious and vocational life under the pretext that ‘after all it is not attractive’ is against the Salesian educative style,” the Salesians of Uruguay remark. It is imperative to create “a vocational environment in our Salesian houses”.

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