Well as you can tell, I'm starting to get into the swing of things and with the routine, not everything is quiteas new and exciting as last week- hence, there might be less posts out of me unless you really want to hear about that particularly greasy dish I had to scrub.
But as for this weekend, we had a guys night at Tommy's apartment- Tommy, Ben, Scott, Paul, some guys from our church Julian and Bernard, and I all crowded into Tommy's living room and watched the Patriot. It was Tommy's first time seeing it and he's hilarious to watch movies with. He got so into it and even prayed for the characters in the movie. Mel Gibson's character was aiming and said, "Lord make me quick and accurate" and Tommy nervous mutters, "Yes, Lord Jesus please help him". Then- my favorite, in the scene where Heath Ledger's character dies, he's getting ready to shoot the bad guy and he's loading the gun in slow motion and it's killing Tommy- you can here him getting louder and louder "C'mon, hurry up! Faster... c'mon, c'mon... Quick, just shoot him! Do it now, shoot! Hurry up you son of a- (he shoots the bad guy) PRAISE GOD!!!" Then we watched Fight Club and you know how that goes.
Anyway, church the nest morning was not what I expected. We went to a hotel and gathered into one of those fancy conference rooms they have while the band tuned and the projector warmed up. We started with this kiddie classis "Father Abraham" and I knew I was gonna like this place. It was like any other small church with 40 or 50 people, but the audience was very responsive, praying and letting out an Amen now and then. The pastor was soft spoken but had lots of good things to say. I really liked it. Plus our cell group makes up like a quarter of the congregation so I feel like I know people already. We went over to someone's house for pizza and we played with a woman's kids and watched British cartoons, then went to see No Country for Old Men. Not what I expected, but whatever.
Today was the other free day we have and I woke up, went looking for the laundrette, but it was still closed, so we'll have to see. I walked to Tesco (which is a beautiful walk for a while between the river and canal, right by the cathedral, then bought a few more things. I wandered down to the sea and walked the prom til I got to the lighthouse thing that Paul tells me is actually a wastewater treatment plant. There I saw a rainbow (classic) and watched a storm move across the south side of Galway Bay which kicked up some decent waves that splashed me a bit. I spent most of the rest of the afternoon wandering, then hit up a smaller cathedral for my quiet time. Had dinner with Ben and Kelsie, then Skyped with a number of people back home (and Devon in France!) Which reminds me, I bought me tickets to Paris last night! Ah! So exciting... that's not for a month and a half though.
Back to work tomorrow... we'll see if I have something other than the floor or dishes.
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