The title of this entry is a quote from my very good friend, Philippe. He said it to me today when we were discussing the differences between French and Americans regarding love languages. It was interesting. Anyway, I loved that he said that. He's wiser than he realizes.
A lot has happened in the past few days. A lot a lot. Just to over-emphasize. And again, I'm writing this blog at 12:30. Though this time it's PM, which is so much better, I think. Though I am a creature of habit.
Starting off, last Tuesday evening was fabulous. I went over to Chris and Spencer's (they're STINTers), and we had a Great Music Exchange. Basically, we just listened to angst-filled music that we'd loved while growing up. Like Staind, Trapt, 3 Doors Down, Third Eye Blind, Taking Back Sunday. It was a lot of fun to just reminisce and be crazy. Good times.
Wednesday was really good for me as well. I hadn't really taken time for myself for about 2 weeks, so that's what I did. Since I hadn't been feeling well on Monday and Tuesday and my Wednesday is comprised of 6 hours of French class, I just chilled at home that night and worked on my new novel :) I'm super pumped about it. Though, like last time, I'm a little worried that I won't be able to write it like I want to. We'll see what happens, though!
Thursday was a great day also. I wasn't feeling sick at all. Classes went really well - I spoke more than normal. And that night, we had the Seeker Bible study. I like to go because it's small, and I tend to understand it fairly well. My friend Adam came for the first time this week, and I was so happy, because I hadn't seen him in 2 and a half weeks! So good. Oh, and we talked about forgiveness. Always a great topic :)
Friday may have been my favorite day of the week, however. Though that may be because very unexpected things happened. I don't have class on Friday, but Stephanie and I planned on going to campus anyway to go sharing. Which we did. We took a video that some of the STINTers made and asked students to watch it then answer questions. The video is only like 7 minutes long. So Steph and I went on campus and talked with some girls for a long time. It went well :) Then we met up with Lea and hung out with her for a while, as she was leaving the following day for Paris.
After that, I went home and did some random stuff. And I was desperately looking for something to do. Around 6:30, though, I got a text from Katy asking me if I wanted to accompany she and Julien to a middle school musical. What the heck? Um, yes, please. It's a French middle school play with music. I was totally on board. I quickly got ready and headed to meet them. I got to ride in a car for the third time in France, but this was my first time on the interstate (autoroute. boom French vocab.) That was an adventure. It was also an adventure because Julien didn't actually know where we were going. It was at a church in Frontignane. What?!? Okay. However, that was much easier than planned because it was actually in this banging cathedral that's 900 years old. Oh, okay.
Well, apparently there was some miscommunication. Because it wasn't a middle school musical. It was a children's Gospel choir. Best surprise ever, let me tell you. It was like seeing Sister Act live. Only they were kids. With French accents. Not dressed like nuns. Julien, Katy, and I were all pleasantly surprised. :)
Saturday was sweet, too. I basically laid on Julien's floor while watching two movies I'd never seen. The first, Groundhog Day, was surprisingly good. Much better than I expected. The second, Scream, was super disappointing. I wanted to be scared. I wasn't. You know what else is disappointing? Watching DBZ in French. Their voices are all wrong. Meh.
You know what's not disappointing? Watching French hockey. That's what I did on Saturday night. I've never watched hockey before. Not on TV, not live. Never. But it was so much fun! I'm going back as soon as there's another game. I loved it! And we (the Montpellier Vipers) won in overtime! Dang! Yelling that much definitely didn't help my sore throat (which is still lingering. hate.)
So onto Sunday. I'll try to wrap this up quickly. Church was amazing (the sermon was on purity and how to resist temptation. The pastor brought his A-game.), and many of us went to Subway for lunch after. Then, because it's about 60 degrees and sunny here, we went for a walk. Lovely day. Lovely day.
Sorry if that was long with unnecessary detail. Don't feel obligated to read everything I write :)
Love.
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