Much Ado About Nothing

Hello all!

Sorry about my hiatus. Yesterday was a rainy day, so we didn't do very much. :) Which was just fine. It was nice having a day to rest. Lindsey, Nicola, and I went to church right down the road from their house and it was really great. It was very similar to The Falls Church in pastoral preaching style and in music, I even knew several of the songs! The processional music was the guy-girl echo song "I Will Worship" and I was thinking...dude...we've sung this song at every church I've ever attended, this rocks. The pastor gave a sermon about the Holy Spirit, who he said has three main purposes: revealing Christ/teaching us, encouraging us, and showing us when we mess up, which he described as getting a brick thrown at us to jolt us back into reality. :) Sometimes it takes a brick to get us back to where we need to be.

So that was really cool. Tomorrow night I'm going to try to check out the college group at Holy Trinity Brompton. We spent yesterday afternoon at the cinema since it was raining really hard. I was struck by the fact that only American films were being shown. It really put in perspective how much the US affects the world, and the thought of, should we? I'm sure there are a lot of really good British screenwriters and directors out there, but they don't get as much of a chance because Hollywood is so pervasive...hmm...

After enjoying a lovely traditional English Sunday dinner (chicken, Yorkshire pudding...which I loved..., roast potatoes, various really good vegetables), Lindsey, Nicola, and I caught up on LOST from the past three weeks and watched last week's awesome (and really weird) episode which aired last night in the UK. SkyOne is the name of the channel I think. It's a satellite channel, so it only airs on select televisions (not including the one in my flat) and it shows the the episode at 10:00 on Sunday nights, so four days after it airs in the States. So much information in that episode. I don't really know what to make of it. I won't say more, though, for Rachel's sake. ;) Poor girl is stuck in India without any hope of seeing LOST until June. Don't worry, you can make it. :-P

Today we took Donna to Milton Keynes to get ready for her show, and then continued on to Stratford-upon-Avon to see the birthplace of William Shakespeare. It was pretty cool, though Lindsey, Nicola, and I decided that they're trying a bit too hard to make it cool. Pretty much everything that they could prove had a connection to Shakespeare, they mentioned. We joked in the gift shop that we were holding Shakespeare's quill and Shakespeare's eraser (or rubber :-P) and we went to Shakespeare's pub for lunch. :) We had fun, that's all that matters.

Now I am back on Great Russell Street. I've finished my first two journals and I'm set to turn them in tomorrow morning. Tomorrow we are going to Scotland Yard and the Cabinet War Rooms, so that should be really interesting. Hope all is well!

Oh, and when Mom and Dad are here, we're going to go see Wicked. I'm stoked.