Lazy Sunday

3/11/2012

Today was rather low key. A lot of people from the ASC program were going to go to the blue mountains today. However, I decided that I wanted to sleep in today. I just wanted one day to not wake up to an alarm clock. And let me tell you, WORTH IT!

I slept in until the ripe hour of 9:30! Look at me go!

I then got to skype the fam at 10. The rest of my day was filled with cleaning, Kimberly work (work for Kimberly’s class), and laundry. I also went to an evening church service. We are required to visit several different types of churches. Last week I visited a Catholic church, and this week I visited an Anglican.

In my post “Humble Pie” I talked about walking around for hours trying to find a church, that is the church that I went to. It’s called Church By The Bridge. I found it alright this time. But I guess you could say I had already familiarized myself with the area…

Before the service even started, several people came up and started chatting with me. It was a smaller church and I had obviously not been around before, so people were curious. They were even more curious when I started talking and they realized that I was American. If people didn’t make me talk all the time I could totally blend in here.

The service itself was interesting. It started with worship. Then there was a time for people from the congregation to come up and share something that God had done or is doing in their life. I was surprised at how many people wanted to get up and share.

Then half way through, they had a coffee break, or as they call it, supper.  Everyone goes to the back and proceeds to eat and drink and chat for 10-15 minutes before the sermon starts. I helped myself to a delightful cheese biscuit and a hand full of grapes. Consequently, the service did last a little longer than I thought it would. But I guess that’s what happens when you take an intermission.

On a completely unrelated note, people take the weirdest things on public transportation. In one day I saw a woman with a floor lamp and a man with a power drill. I mean I totally get it. You gotta do what you gotta do. I just hope I never have to take anything that cumbersome with me on the bus/train.