What a weekend I’ve had! I can’t believe I’m three days behind on my blogging…time is just flying right through my fingers. Today I spend the morning at church and the afternoon at the apartment working on homework. I was able to write the two compositions that were already assigned for this week, so I’m feeling pretty good about the week ahead of me. The one thing I haven’t worked on as much as I would have liked is my travel plans for fall break, but I guess there’s a week full of time ahead of me to do that (along with a million other things!).
Church was really fun this morning, and I just LOVE understanding the messages in Spanish. Today in Sunday school there were 4 American girls and about 5 students who were actually from Spain. The pastor joked that if more people didn’t start coming from the community he would start teaching the lessons in English. No one wanted that since we love the extra practice and no one else understands English, but it was funny. I kind of like having the smaller group because everyone in it is so welcoming and it makes me feel comfortable enough to participate even though my responses might not be exactly correct grammatically. The youth pastor who has been teaching Sunday school is actually from the US. He’s married to a Spanish woman and has lived here for years and years, so he’s great at Spanish, but it’s fun to have that connection with him, and if we ever don’t understand something he’s always more than willing to help us out.
The main message was also really enjoyable today because it was about God being with us always and loving us more than we could ever understand no matter what happens. I love being encouraged with a group of fellow believers, and it’s incredible to me to be able to be part of a community like this here in Spain.
It takes quite a while to get to and from church (it’s about a 40 min walk to the bus station and a 30 min bus ride, and we always have to wait quite a while for the bus after church), so it takes up a lot of the day, but it’s definitely worth it. When I got home from church, Corinne and I heated up the lunch Rosa left for us and ate together before Rosa got home from Mass. After lunch we had a hysterical conversation with her about the difficulties of buying gifts for people. She is absolutely fantastic, and I’m SO grateful to be living with the beautiful women God has blessed me with here.
Like I said, the majority of my afternoon was spent doing homework, and I got most of what I wanted to do finished, so I would say that today was a very good Sunday. I’m not quite feeling ready to go back to school tomorrow, but such is the story of Sunday night no matter what country I’m in. I’m meeting my intercambio for the first time in person tomorrow, so I guess that’s something to look forward to. Hasta mañana!
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