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| | Sunday Morning (coming down)Church here was good - the message was on Col. 1:15-20 with special emphasis on the latter verses, and night church was on Rev. 7 - so apparently the preacher here is working on those two books. He references lots of other Scriptures though, so he takes "interpreting Scripture with Scripture" very seriously, also quoting famous theologians and some hymns (which I found interesting since they don't use hymns in worship - they do sing them at other times, it seems). A family in the church had college-aged people (or thereabouts - there was a few people a bit older) for lunch: potatoes, rice, salad, and chili! I found that quite amusing...it was quite good, although not very spicy. They had some hot peppers on the side that I had to take! You know me! So then we all hung out with those folks - I talked to one guy who is in research (exotic disease, which sounds interesting) for a good while (he gave me a ride to the family's house), and most of the other people played a board game (Risk! They all kept asking if we had it in the States - yes, I said, even though I wasn't playing. It is a game that has never interested me, for your information). There were also some younger kids there which was quite cute - two of them were little girls and two boys - the two girls were a team for the board game and then ended up sort of winning (couldn't actually finish the game because we had to go back to church). I ended up reading to one of them - Shel Silverstein! Apparently they really like "Where the Sidewalk Ends", and their mum and some of the college girls had been reading to her, but then her dad suggested that she ask me to read them since I've got the right accent! Then after church some of the college kids (well, ages 16-30, or so) have a thing called "Youth Fellowship", where they sing some more modern songs, read some scripture, and pray, so I went along with that, too. They're quite a nice bunch of folks here, and I've actually got Sunday-lunch invites booked for the next two weeks: the first with the preacher's family, and the other with an older couple who farm (do or did, I couldn't quite catch that bit). Apparently they have some cool old books, too, which sound interesting. I'll have to make sure to stay busy with school work on Saturdays so that I don't have to cram Sunday night or Monday morning for my Film Noir class that has lecture on Monday morning!
I also went to International Cafe on Saturday night, a program sponsored by several of the churches around here, but which actually meets in St. Pete's (where I'm attending). I sat at a table with a girl from Poland, another from England (southern), another from the Netherlands, a few more from Glasgow, a guy from China, and another guy from Scotland. Quite a nice group - we talked about music experience, where we've been, etc. Quite funny: the Scottish boy from International Cafe told me that he liked my accent, and that he's always liked the American accent. I had to tell him that all the girls back home love Australian, British, Irish, and Scottish accents, and that half of the female US exchange students to those countries go just to hear guys talk (which isn't far from the truth). He found that quite a laugh. I've gotten a few comments from guys about my beard, too - all saying that they like it. One of them even said I look Scottish, which I think is a bit of a stretch because I've hardly seen any other full beards, but I certainly appreciate the sentiment. Another thing I've found that's interesting is that the "dessert" foods over here, and even other sweets like candy and "biscuits" (cookies) are nowhere near as sweet as we in the States are used to. It's quite interesting, really - had a bit of a cake and some pudding, and neither were very sweet, but full of flavor, which made up for it. Maybe even made the desserts more interesting, actually. I'm interested to see how sweet some raspberry jam is that I bought the other day - I haven't opened it yet, but I probably will tomorrow.
I'm afraid that they don't know how to make coffee over here, though. And I still haven't found a way to make the coffee that I brought, so I was telling one fellow that if he invites me over I'll bring the coffee - so that he can taste the good stuff and so that I can get rid of it! Or, perhaps, I'll have to borrow a coffee-maker, since I can't seem to find one in the store. Not a drip one, nor a percolator. Quite annoying.
Well, that's all the news that's fit to print (actually, that's about all the news period, lol), so I'm going to leave it to that and go to bed! Lecture at 9 am, and I need to figure out where the building is! | | | Posted 1/20/2008 6:00 PM - 0 comments
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