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Saturday, February 7, 2009

It's Spring!


It is an absolutely beautiful day here in Catania! The sun is shining, the temperature is perfect, and it's SATURDAY! This morning was the first time that it was warm enough to eat breakfast outside on the terrace. It was perfect!

This has been a very busy week! We have had a lot of English/Bible lessons, our Tuesday night singing and prayer meeting, and our mid-week Bible study (that actually got moved to Friday because of the congestion in the streets that the Festival of St. Agatha caused). We were able to see a lot of fireworks from our apartment. After dark, there was a firework show almost every hour ALL night long for 3 days!! There are 2 videos in my photobucket that you can watch. Later today, we are meeting with the rest of the members at the church building to clean it, followed by a downtown distribution of fliers for the English/Bible lessons.

Here at the house, Charlotte has begun eating cereal and she is getting two tiny teeth! She isn't very excited about the tooth part, but she is handling it like a little lady. Xin brought us all some Chinese tea to try, and a movie to watch this weekend. The tiny bonsai tree that I planted named Alan finally sprouted! He is just a teeny tiny little thing now, but his picture will soon be on photobucket, so stay tuned! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. Spring is here in Catania, so hang in there and it will be in Memphis before long!


1 comments:

washdryandfold said...

I started to warn you about the fireworks. In Germany, there were fireworks from Christmas to New Years', day or night. I was so skittish when I went shopping because I never knew when a firework would go off near me. Then on New Year's--oh my gosh, people all around us were doing fireworks from their balconies all night. It was quite nerve wracking! Did you participate in the parade? We did in Cologne--it was interesting, but we didn't really know what was going on. It had something to do with the first communion. Molly's classmates and their families were all participating, so we did too. Paraded all through the neighborhoods, looked at the altars that people had set up, and ended up at a mass at the Catholic church affiliated with Molly's school. It is so fun learning about other cultures. You are a rare American.