The Week In Review

Monday and Tuesday sucked. Again, the exchange is a freaking roller coaster, and I knew it was going to be hard after leaving Tyler to go back to school, but I basically just sat through school wondering what I was doing in France.

But alas, you can’t stay homesick forever, so the rest of the week was better. Thanks to Tyler letting me borrow Lost Season 2 I have something to look forward to when I come home at night.

My visa fiasco ended Thursday, which was even better coupled by the fact that I missed a three hour session of Math to go to my medical visit. I also got a sweet X-ray of my lungs (I’ve always kind of wanted an X-ray, I guess I can die happy now)/

Last night was amazing, I went to the Vintage Church in Paris. All the people I met were obscenely friendly and funny, and it was great to have some fellowship again. They have worship once a month (which is what last night was), and then they have home groups every week. It was really just down to earth and nonchurchy in a way I really like, so I will definitely be going back. It was really funny because they meet in this church where they rent out a room, and across the hall the Young Protestants were meeting. It was very ironic from the standpoint of what an American thinks about when he hears Youth Group, but there was beer flowing, wine, people smoking, people dancing on a stage to YMCA (we got invited in to teach them the motions). This guy Justin and I agreed it took Young Life’s outreach to a whole new level, and that if a church in America rented out their church to a youth group and came back finding anything similar to that, they would freak out. Also, Justin made the astute observation that “a lot more of my high school friends would have come to youth group if they’d known there was free beer.”

After me and 3 other guys went and grabbed a beer at “L’academie de la Bière” where I managed to spend 6.80 Euro on a beer (that’s basically the price their beers start at). But I had a great time, and a great discussion with them, and was reassured that everything I’ve been feeling over the past 2.5 months has been normal. Thus, I had an amazing night of fellowship and fun, which I will definitely be taking part in again.

Brent