Slow Sunday

Oops. My days are so messed up that I forgot that today was the first Sunday of the month. Looks like I'll have to fast next week. Plus, because I'm used to having church at 1pm and having hardly a Sunday left when I get back from church, having church at 9am made the day feel a whole lot longer then it actually was.

The church building looks nice, with pretty much the same interior decorations as most LDS chapels, but it's different because it is three stories high. We had Relief Society first, and that was on the second floor. I didn't get too much out of that because they of course were speaking Chinese and without the missionaries in there, there was no one to translate. Oh wait, there was one part of the meeting that was in English. For the music appreciation time, the lady put in a jazz CD for us to listen to and reflect. The song came on and I recognized it and leaned over to Nancy, "do you know this song?" She didn't, and so I told her that it was about Jack the Ripper. She told me that it was okay, because it probably didn't have the words. Right after she said that, the singing started, and she got to hear how inappropriate "Mack the Knife" is for Relief Society.

I went to Gospel Essentials next (actually, Gospel Essentials came to us because it's in the same room). I was able to get more out of that class because the missionaries translated for us. Next we went up to the third floor for sacrament meeting. The other missionary sat behind Nancy and I so that we both could hear him, but the branch president came up and gave Nancy and I head phones and gave the missionary a microphone thing so that he could talk quieter and we would still hear him clearly. It's funny, because sometimes he would get lost or just explain that "oh, she's so scatter brained, I can't translate this" so although the meeting got translated, I don't know how much I got out of it.

Church ended at noon, and around 3pm Luke and Kaylene moved in to the apartment across from us. I met them on Friday. They are a married couple from BYU who are interning at the University in Hualien. But the thing is, the university isn't helping them at all. Luke and Kaylene are supposed to pay their own way over, find and pay for a place to stay, take care of all meal expenses, and then work at the university for free. So, Yuling, being the wonderfully amazing woman that she is offered to let them stay in the apartments above the preschool until the summer interns come in July.

So, this evening was spent talking and getting to know them. And we just finished up playing Phase 10. Okay, that game always takes a long time to play, but I'm telling you, this game just would not end.

Anyways, I'm really excited to have them living here, I think we'll all have a blast. Nancy, Kaylene, and I seem to have pretty similar personalities, and Luke's pretty funny. Luke's pretty random, so I think we'll get along just fine.

Oh yeah, food. Nothing weird today, for breakfast I had pineapple and a brown sugar roll. That was just a super dense roll that had the tiniest hint of brown sugar flavor. Lunch was one of those steam bread rolls filled with pork and bamboo, good, but not stellar. And dinner was a grilled cheese sandwich.

That was my day today, and I'm kind of not looking forward to tomorrow, because I start teaching tomorrow. Oh boy, here we go!