Tomorrow, I will be going to orientation to finally start my program. Honestly, I feel pretty darn nervous. It was hard to get adjusted at my family's house and now I feel like I have to do it all over again. I guess that's what traveling is all about? Then, in two weeks, I get moved into my permanent Homestay family. Oy oy oy. So many challenges. But anyways, yes, I am pretty darn nervous. I mean, of course, deep in the bottom of my belly, I am very excited and I know there will be so many opportunities and experiences but all these questions start swarming into my mind. What if I don't make any friends?
What if I can't travel to all these wonderful places because I have no friends to travel with? What if I can't fulfill God's will because I suck and I just can't? What if? What if?! I feel like I'm going to explode!
I guess I'm pretty lucky to have been able to stay with my family and adjust my jetlag and have my first baguette already and stuff. I already like I'm beginning to become a local? Hehe, I kid...not yet. But really though, there is so much more! Like tomorrow, I'm really off on my own. My auntie will drop me off at the train station and from there I'm gonna have to find the metro and then get off then find my school. Imagine little me carrying my big suitcase across the streets of P
aris to find my school. Oy, I hope I don't run into pick-pocketers (?) or little kid gypies. Oy, oy, oy. But I'm sure I'll be fine! This is the start o
f my new independence. Wahoo!
Anyways, recap of the last two days!
Yesterday, my Auntie took me into the city of Lyon, since she only lives in the outskirts in a village called Tassin. It was very, very hot...like Korea. Even the shopping centers reminded me a lot of Korea! And also, the clothes here are very simi
lar to the ones in America so I don't so pressured to buy anything. It's nothing like, "I must have this because I will never get it anywhere else." I s
wear my shopping habits got so much better. No one believes me. I must prove myself?! You guys probably have seen pictures on Facebook but here they are again...just to bring color into this blog.
Also, at night, I was doing my devotionals while Lucas was playing video games just so I could spend some time with him. He asked me what I was doing and I said I was reading the bible and writing my thoughts on it. I was reading Matthew 13: 36-34 and then I made him read it in English, because he is, in fact, really good. So he read:
36Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field." 37He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. 38The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
40"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
He didn't really know what he was reading so I explained it to him and he was "Oh, that's cool!" And he went into his room. I don't really know how "cool" it was to him but I hope he remembers this one day and he grows up into a God-fearing man!
Then today, I went to my family's church which is called Eglise Evangeliste Libre (Free Evangelical Church) and it was pretty cool. It wasn't in those crazy old school buildings but it was just a regular building with ordinary, God loving people. Then after, we went to La Boulangerie et Patisserie and got some BOMB bread. It was just their ordinary baguette with a hint of sourdoughness...right out of the oven! Yum, yum! (I later learned at the house that you don't usually eat these baguettes plain. You eat them with bars of rich French chocolate. Major yums.) After we got back, my uncle barbequed Filet Mignon!!!! I never had this before so I don't really know what to compare it with but...it was good! (Hehe, I don't really know much about food...but I'm learning.) Then after, we went swimming in their pool! It was so fun...all by myself. The kids play with each other and I play by myself. I just practiced my diving and I jumped higher and higher everytime. Hahaha, I felt like I was 5 years old. Good times. We had pizza for dinner...and here I am now!
I'm about to knock out though because I didn't sleep last night and I got some busy, hectic times ahead of me. Please keep me in your prayers! Merci beaucoup!
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