Yesterday I found myself behaving like a camera-carrying, map-following, awestruck grocky while taking a tour of St. Alban's, an amazing town north of London. Once the ancient city of Verulamium, the city houses anceint Roman ruins as well as an amazing medieval cathedral (with the longest nave in all of Europe). It was a beautiful combination of architectural styles as the cathedral was built and rebuilt over a long span of time. I was taken aback with the realization that the same God who was worshipped in this cathedral so many hundreds of years ago is the God who is still praised there today. Despite all the changes in the landscape (physical and otherwise), He is constant.
Today I was staffed by the wife of a SCIO (Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford) don. He teaches the theology seminar and she works with the families in St. Andrew's Church (where I have decided to attended semi-regularly). They have a 3-year old (Anna Karen) and live in the flat on the top floor of a quaint old home that I get to spend a good amount of time in. I will be filing papers, attending the newly automatic church door, cleaning up after Bible study teas, delivering mailings and generally helping her out a few hours a week. At 7.50 pounds an hour this will be amazing for me! Beyond having some extra spending money it will also allow me to connect with the people of Oxford and experience the way a church in this city functions.
My most recent adjustment comes from living with 9 blokes. Though I've had two males in my home all the time I've grown up I've never shut so many toilet lids in my life! I wonder if all loos function in such a way.
Tonight I may go to G&D's for some Greek yogart and honey. So long as my roomates' boyfriends are living in the states I needn't worry about being the gooseberry on a date :)
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