Of Churches and Nightclubs

From Sunday July 29, 2007

Currently listening to: Fergie, “Clumsy”

This weekend has been great. Friday night, I went to a prayer meeting and got to see Grace’s boyfriend, Vitya (Victor), and his friends lead worship. They were awesome.

Afterwards we went to Mega to hang out and have some good coffee, (I think I’ve been to Mega everyday this week since I got here. Crazy!).

Saturday, my dad and I went to visit a friend of his who was leaving to go back to America. While we were there we discovered a couple golf clubs and decided to “play.” Basically, all we did was try to see if we could drive the balls past the pool and into the field below the house. Once we went home, Dad and I decided to play what Dad christened “Apple Golf.” Our backyard is filled with apple trees, and so our yard is littered with rotting apples almost all the time, so Dad and I had some fun. Silly, but fun.

Today, however, has been long and eventful.

Grace, Colin, me, and then two sisters named Susanna and Hayan led worship at ICF. ICF meets in this nightclub, which is perhaps the most random place I have ever heard of for a church to meet. So I can now say that I’ve been to a club before. Anyways, we practiced before church started and I was a nervous wreck because there were two songs that I wasn’t sure about, (I swear I have never sang one of them before, no matter what Grace says). According to my parents, (J), we did pretty well.

After church, some of the church members went on a prayer walk, myself included. I enjoyed that, mostly because I walked around places that I used to go a lot when I live here. Good memories.

After all of that, a few of us went to meet Grace, Colin, Ayanda, Vitya, Yura, and Nurlan at Mega (again) for lunch. It was so much fun. One of my classmates, Rachel, is here and she came with us. It was so great to see her. It’s been about 3 years since we’ve seen each other, and we spent pretty much the whole day together.

After lunch we came back home and watched Little Miss Sunshine, which is awesome. Why did it take so long for me to see this?

Its now sometime after 9 and everyone has gone home. Rachel leaves for America on Friday, but we’re going to try and do something before she goes. It was so great to be with her and to hang out. We reminisced about high school and I am now completely nostalgic. I’m also exhausted.

G’night.