Or reading week, whatever you want to call it. And yes, can you believe we get a reading week in the fall semester. These crazy Ontario universities. But I'm not complaining. I can really use the time to catch up on the massive amounts of reading I have. Somehow I just keep accumulating more and more each week. I should never have let myself fall behind at Thanksgiving ;) It's all been downhill from there. Speaking of Thanksgiving, I made it out to my aunt and uncle's place outside Waterloo for the most gorgeous weekend ever, and some really amazing food. I can't begin to articulate just how wonderful it is to have some family near by when I'm so far from home. So nice to see some familiar faces. Plus they live down the road from a bunch of Mennonite farms. My aunt and cousin took me for a little tour of the area and we saw people ploughing the fields with their team of horses, driving in their buggies, and the yellow road warning signs with an image of a horse & buggy on them! It's a really beautiful area. And driving through the Niagara escarpment was breathtaking.
On Sunday I went to a black baptist church with a couple of other Emmanuel students. What an experience. The music was pumping and the floorboards were shaking. It was great. The only downside was that the service didn't start until 11 and went for two hours, and I hadn't eaten anything beforehand. I was just a little hungry by the time we wound up the final hymn. Kind of interesting, the pastor is in my Greek course. He preached a very nice sermon on the topic of "Joy Cometh in the Morning." He had us turning to our neighbours and telling each other this and then the congregation repeating it back to him over and over. Definitely hit the message home.
Anyways, only one more day to go and I have freedom. Can't quite believe it's already the halfway point in the semester. But my thoughts are already on Christmas vacation...hopefully I can stay motivated for school until then.
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