Home Cooked Meal

Tonight the young adult group from the church I've been going to all met at the home of our Pastor and his wife.  They open their apartment every other Wednesday evening for dinner and discussion time, and it really   was a very enjoyable evening.  I hadn't really realized that beyond my few simple pasta dishes I've cooked for myself (and heating things in the microwave which doesn't count), I haven't cooked or eaten anything in a home in almost the month I've been here.  Coming from a group of friends in NYC that have a habit of cooking for each other at least weekly if not more often, I didn't completely realize how much I miss that until I was able to enjoy it tonight.  Plus, I am still just amazed each new group of people I find myself in, just how different everyone in the group is, and how many different countries and cultures are represented in these groups.  I'm learning so much about so many things outside of the classroom from all of these people I'm able to spend time with, and I love it.

Also...for Christmas this past year, I got a German/English phrase calendar from my good friend Vera.  We studied 4 years of German together in high school, so German has always been a unique shared interest with us...now...this calendar has an extremely wide variety of phrases it translates.  These aren't your typical "Hello" "How are you?" "Good Night" type things, but today's was especially relevant to this, so I thought I'd share.

I'll hopefully get out with my camera again soon, I'm trying to be good about getting as much school work done on weekdays as I can, and saving the weekends to get out and explore.