- Hanging out with "Swedish Guy" (Tobias) at Oyak (the place where you get beer after prayer, or coffee during the day), listening to him talk about Viking axes, which apparently were very effective, and using words like "we" and "our" (as opposed to they, thousands of years ago). Did we mention that the Swedish Navy can apparently take out the US no problem?
- Checking out Houston Adam's tattoo, before we knew him as Houston Adam
- Oyak on Monday night, having an international sing-along to "With Or Without You", with the Italian version of Jack Black shouting "screaming!", except it came out more like "squeaming, SQUEAMING!!!" at the "oh-oh-oh-oh" part.
- Monday night at dinner, watching our soon-to-be-friend Travis arriving with his green hat and faded t-shirt and backpack and like six bags, rockin the hot.
- Fighting for seconds in the Extra Food area on pasta night.
- drinking out of bowls all week
- Chicago Adam (who is a doctor, and had administered some antibiotics several days before): "So Michelle, are you back to 100%?"
Michelle: "yeah, I think so"
Travis: "were you sick?"
M: "no, I had an infection"
T: "where?" (awkward silence)
- Tobias: "That's non-alcoholic beer you're drinking"
Michelle: "Oh, that's why the line was so short!"
- Brother Maxime, who speaks about ten language, exhorting us to "fuckus, er, FOCUS on Christ". He then looked right at the two of us, among a group of 150 or so Dutch, Swedish, German and Polish people: "sorry Canadians!"
- Brother Maxime using Q-Tips, Tetris, and his apparent love of Rage Against the Machine as examples in his Bible Introductions.
- William singing the Tetris theme in the lunchline.
- Learning to queue like Europeans (basically, there are no rules!!)
- Travis: "So... I used to be kind of a hippie. Actually, I was a Phish-head."
- Speculating about Houston Adam's (who is getting married in a couple weeks) mass newsletter to his Taize friends: "Dear Losers: Sex is awesome. In euphoria, Adam"
- Heather, on garbage duty, pelting that blonde Swedish girl with a big bag of plastic bottles. (Actually we really liked all the Swedes, and it was totally an accident, but it was still pretty funny)
- Heather: "Michelle, if Tony Funk and Sean Gasperetti were to somehow have a child together, he would look like THAT GUY!"
Pictures to come, as soon as we find an Internet cafe with USB hookups.
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somehow I got through this whole post without mentioning Colette, who was an integral part of our week. She contributes to the mental video montage with her confession of having microwaved instant coffee, with her classic "I like acoustic guitar fine, just not with tambourine!", and also because she was the one who spent the whole week talking about stealing one of the bowls that we all loved drinking out of so much. She's our new fave-y!
Hey you two! Sounds like you're having a fabulous time out there. Although (re: Taize) I couldn't help notice you NOT mentioning the wonder of tablespoons as 'the only truly essential piece of cutlery you'll ever need'. Thanks also for that beer-line comment. It was funny for reasons I won't elaborate on.
The latest news in my world is that we (my trio plus Trumpet Bria and Guitar Brian) had our first Keeping Time vol 02 recording session this past Sunday and it went VERY well.
Have fun in Rome, sisters. I'll check back every so often to see how you're doing :).
greetings from Poland:) enjoyed your posts very much:)
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