Peter (right) and Father Bohl, who oversees life at the monastery, sit together and talk about the voluntary year and what it means to the monks. Photos: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa
Peter Roberg, 18, kneels down in a graveyard overshadowed by the baroque monastery church on the Frauenberg hill in Fulda, central Germany.
He takes a paintbrush and freshens up the inscription on a gravestone in the monastery cemetery with some white paint.
