First Friday

Friday 2nd October
You’ll probably have noticed all these posts are coming on the same day, and I’m afraid I wrote them with hindsight, so there’s not all that many anecdotes.

Liesbeth (the other Dutch girl in my room) has been smuggling food back to our room from the dining hall after meals. Apparently it was for a rainy day. I told her yesterday that she wouldn’t have long to wait for one of those and today I was proved right. Now it really does feel like home!

Friday’s a bit of a funny day. No duties if you have one in the morning (I hope Henry doesn’t get to sad about not seeing me!) because it’s work morning and seminars. Half the students are on the work mornings where everything in the hall gets a thorough clean. The other half have a seminar and then next week, we swap. I had the seminar today and it was about worship. It was about what worship is, what we should get out of it and what we should gain if we worship together. Then we spent time looking at how to plan a service and what should be in one because at some point or other, we’ll have to plan and do exactly that.

CHIPPY FRIDAY!!

Three guesses what we had for lunch. Although being the only Brit on the table, I was the only one who understood the concept of a chip butty, although on of the German girls was very happy to educated in this most important of culinary arts.

Turns out the walk from Grasmere is now no longer a walk because the forecast for tomorrow is reasonably ropey/terrible. So we’re driving to Grasmere, spending time there then driving to Ambleside and spending the rest of the afternoon there. We still get plenty of fresh air, and the exercise will be much more relaxed (with not quite so much worry of getting lost or separated!)

I’m currently having my last attempt at downloading the video for my interactive group and then next week I’m going to try and organise my time better. I have Italian to learn, Bible reading to do, memory verses to learn, notes to write up and all during the week so I can (hopefully) go on the outings on Saturdays and do writing on Sundays.

Oh! Just remembered. Apparently we’re having something called an ‘Un-Auction’ on Saturday. I have no idea what that is but Ian (dean of students) and Bill (resident assistant) say it will be loads of fun, so it should be interesting. When they were telling us about the activities they’ve got planned for Saturday nights, Scottish dancing was mentioned – at which point they had my full and undivided attention – so I am now a very happy bunny who is waiting with (not much) patience.

Family groups tonight. No idea what we’re doing, but Mark said to bring family photos along. Mark Thomas, by the way – the MD who said we didn’t need Bibles during an Introduction to the Bible lecture!! Oh, this is the same man who refers to our collective mumbled answers to his questions in class as ‘speaking in tongues’. There’s some fantastic characters here!!