Church in England

Yesterday I did some shopping at a famous book store in town, Blackwell, and did some more grocery shopping. I have to get used to shopping every other day for groceries. Nothing is in bulk; they don't even offer gallons of milk. Everything has to be carried the 3/4 of a mile back to our flat. I saw someone today load their groceries in a rolling suitcase. I might try that next.

I haven't bought much yet, but I found a sweatshirt on clerance for 3 pounds that I liked. It's a great color and it fit me really well. I didn't pay much attention to the wording until I got home and realized it said "New York City" on it. Sigh....I swear I'm actually in England. I did not secretly go to New York this summer instead.

We went to church this morning. The service was similar, but with some obvious differences. First, children are given musical instruments to "play" during the singing, but really, it's just loud noise when they are all shaking tamborines and banging drums! The songs were familiar, but most of them were sung to different tunes. The funniest thing was when we sang a song put to the tune of "The bare necessities" from The Jungle Book. It was really cute but hard not to laugh! After the service everyone hung out and ate digestive buiscuts (a BIG thing around here), and of course drank tea. They also served a weak lemonade that they called squash. Then everyone rode their bike home from church. We of course, just have to walk everywhere.

Everyone else is taking a nap now. I'm tired, but I won't sleep tonight if I try to rest now. I should be doing my homework! I have two classes soon after I get home, and I'm trying to get started with my reading ahead of time.