| | I'm back from Italy!
In a nutshell:
--Venice was beautiful
--Rome was hot
--We didn't get much sleep in our Venice hostel thanks to two women, one who snored and another who repeatedly blew her nose during the middle of the night
--We decided showering in the showers in our Rome hostel would only make us dirtier...so we didn't...
--We ate a lot of pizza and gelatti
--We saw the Sistine Chapel, the Pieta and St. Peter's Basicila, the Vatican, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Bocca de la Verite (or whatever it's called), the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Venezia, and took a bus tour of Rome all one and a half days
--We had a toilet paper crisis at our Rome hostel...meaning there was NO toilet paper to be found. Thankfully, I had brought about 10 squares of toilet paper with me from the airport in Paris so Leanne and I split that the first night until we used a public toilet the next day and stocked up.
--We drank from the Trevi fountain AND threw money in, so I guess we are going back to Rome sometime!
All in all, it was a rather speedy trip. Leanne and I left Limoges on Sunday morning, spent the afternoon in Paris, flew to Venice that night, spent two days in Venice, flew to Rome, spent two days in Rome, flew to Paris, spent the day in Paris with Winnie and Jackie (to celebrate having survived Limoges) then came back to Limoges and went to youth group at church that night.
Speaking of youth group...I was very touched. Wilson had told me they were planning on doing something for Jackie's last night so I was prepared for that. What I wasn't prepared for was for Thomas and Anthony to sing English praise and worship songs for us that they had learned and then for everyone in the youth group to sign t-shirts for us so we can remember them.
Saturday was my last concert with the vocal group (who is like my little family in the church), and Gaspard had me sing an English song during the culte Saturday night and again on Sunday morning. On Saturday, it was just Gaspard (with his guitar), his wife, Sebastian (the drummer) and I, but I sang Sunday with the whole band who sang along in English with me. I'm really going to miss this church.
So far, I've spent the day packing. I'm trying to get it out of the way so I can spend the rest of my time with friends here before I leave on Saturday. It's going to be hard to leave them. But, like my dad said, it wouldn't have been a good year if I had been anxiously wanting to come home. In the beginning of the year we prayed for a church, friends, and things to be involved with and God provided all that and more. How faithful is He!
Well, I'll try to update again before I leave, but I think that will have to be the end of this journal thing. I don't think I'm going to continue once I get back home. Much love to all and, as the French say, gros bisous!
Ciao. |
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