Krista has been getting on my case for not writing a blog post in a while, so here I am!
I can't really remember a lot of the little things that have happened recently, and I definitely can't recall (or recollect them...) in a cohesive manner, so I won't try.
Yesterday Krista and I spent almost two hours in the Bibliotek with the swanky grand piano. Rosie, you would LOVE this piano. It was so relaxing to listen to that beautiful instrument played by a beautiful person. ;)
Friday and Saturday this week have been very nice, despite not going "anywhere"- most of the students are gone, so the few students that are here are more relaxed and open to having small chats.
Today was an eventfulish day.
The Gaming campus hosted a symposium today, so in the morning, I watched the three youngest Newtons so that Mrs. Newton could attend one of talks.
It was super fun - Allie (the youngest) has the most adorable stammer, but man, she can get addicted to messing with my phone fast! All of the girls particularly love the videos with Pip and Bro in them, but Allie really gets into it, so I probably won't bring my phone over anymore.
I'll detail the Newton's later, but for this post's purpose, I spent about three hours playing with them, and then we went to the noon Byzantine Mass.
That was quite interesting - I liked it, but I like "my" Latin Mass better. ;)
Afterwards, I walked/talked/ate with Kristin, who had come over with some other ITI students for the symposium. It was SO nice to see her - it was actually only the third time we've met up ever (and that includes the thirty second subway meeting), but it was so natural to just pick up where we had left off. We've made some sketchy plans for meeting up in the future, but it's definitely happening.
After lunch at the Keller (the restaurant that's part of the Kartuase), we went to another of the symposium talks, given by Dr. Newton. I really like Dr. Newton, but I didn't know much of the context of what he was talking about, plus I missed half the talk, but everyone else thought it was quite an inspiring talk.
After that, they had a small coffee break, and when it was time for the last talk, I left to go study while Kristin stayed for the talk.
I ended up sleeping.
Once the last talk finished, most of the attendees went over to the Kartuase church for Vespers, which was nice.
I took Kristin to the upstairs chapel (I'll have to detail that later to) when we finished , and we sung rounds and church songs until Kristin had to leave. The acoustics made everything sound so dang nice, and Kristin can harmonize really well.
I walked down to a little pizza/kebap restaurant afterwards, and ate a yummy kebap (I'll detail this as well in a food post) with Christine, Jessica and another girl I just met there.
The symposium was also hosting a concert after the talks/dinner (for the fancy people), so we walked to the Bibliotek (where it was being held) and apparently we got the schedule wrong, because the musicians didn't start officially playing until an hour after we arrived. We had to receptionize until they started (I made up the word; the students that arrived early were sitting in the chairs listening to the musicians practice, when some fancy people came in and the lady in charge said "The reception is first!" - I don't know why they had it before the music, but whatever)
But play those musicians did!
There was a pianist and a violinist, and they were SO GOOD.
The pianist was a smaller, quieter man that didn't know much English, but he was super sweet and nice when I asked him about one of the pieces (he didn't quite understand and gave me the wrong piece, but THIS was the first piece)
The violinist was a younger man, and very dramatic with the violin so that it was almost funny (okay, it WAS funny) but in a good way, because he was so good.
When the concert finished, Christine, Jessica, Jenny, Iryna and I went to the chapel and prayed the Rosary. Iryna doesn't know the Our Father in English, so she said her decade in her language (Bosnian/Russian) while we replied in English. It was really pretty.
After that, I eventually bumbled my way back to the room - Ethel and Myrtle are SUPER tired tonight, so with that, adieu!
I can't really remember a lot of the little things that have happened recently, and I definitely can't recall (or recollect them...) in a cohesive manner, so I won't try.
Yesterday Krista and I spent almost two hours in the Bibliotek with the swanky grand piano. Rosie, you would LOVE this piano. It was so relaxing to listen to that beautiful instrument played by a beautiful person. ;)
Friday and Saturday this week have been very nice, despite not going "anywhere"- most of the students are gone, so the few students that are here are more relaxed and open to having small chats.
Today was an eventfulish day.
The Gaming campus hosted a symposium today, so in the morning, I watched the three youngest Newtons so that Mrs. Newton could attend one of talks.
It was super fun - Allie (the youngest) has the most adorable stammer, but man, she can get addicted to messing with my phone fast! All of the girls particularly love the videos with Pip and Bro in them, but Allie really gets into it, so I probably won't bring my phone over anymore.
I'll detail the Newton's later, but for this post's purpose, I spent about three hours playing with them, and then we went to the noon Byzantine Mass.
That was quite interesting - I liked it, but I like "my" Latin Mass better. ;)
Afterwards, I walked/talked/ate with Kristin, who had come over with some other ITI students for the symposium. It was SO nice to see her - it was actually only the third time we've met up ever (and that includes the thirty second subway meeting), but it was so natural to just pick up where we had left off. We've made some sketchy plans for meeting up in the future, but it's definitely happening.
After lunch at the Keller (the restaurant that's part of the Kartuase), we went to another of the symposium talks, given by Dr. Newton. I really like Dr. Newton, but I didn't know much of the context of what he was talking about, plus I missed half the talk, but everyone else thought it was quite an inspiring talk.
After that, they had a small coffee break, and when it was time for the last talk, I left to go study while Kristin stayed for the talk.
I ended up sleeping.
Once the last talk finished, most of the attendees went over to the Kartuase church for Vespers, which was nice.
I took Kristin to the upstairs chapel (I'll have to detail that later to) when we finished , and we sung rounds and church songs until Kristin had to leave. The acoustics made everything sound so dang nice, and Kristin can harmonize really well.
I walked down to a little pizza/kebap restaurant afterwards, and ate a yummy kebap (I'll detail this as well in a food post) with Christine, Jessica and another girl I just met there.
The symposium was also hosting a concert after the talks/dinner (for the fancy people), so we walked to the Bibliotek (where it was being held) and apparently we got the schedule wrong, because the musicians didn't start officially playing until an hour after we arrived. We had to receptionize until they started (I made up the word; the students that arrived early were sitting in the chairs listening to the musicians practice, when some fancy people came in and the lady in charge said "The reception is first!" - I don't know why they had it before the music, but whatever)
But play those musicians did!
There was a pianist and a violinist, and they were SO GOOD.
The pianist was a smaller, quieter man that didn't know much English, but he was super sweet and nice when I asked him about one of the pieces (he didn't quite understand and gave me the wrong piece, but THIS was the first piece)
The violinist was a younger man, and very dramatic with the violin so that it was almost funny (okay, it WAS funny) but in a good way, because he was so good.
When the concert finished, Christine, Jessica, Jenny, Iryna and I went to the chapel and prayed the Rosary. Iryna doesn't know the Our Father in English, so she said her decade in her language (Bosnian/Russian) while we replied in English. It was really pretty.
After that, I eventually bumbled my way back to the room - Ethel and Myrtle are SUPER tired tonight, so with that, adieu!
Sounds like a nice weekend :-). I'm getting more and more confused about who Kristin is, though, (?)
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