Monday
Today was the first day of the “24-12” prayer - 36 hours of people praying in shifts. We each signed up for four hours total. I did my shifts from noon to two and midnight to two am. Three or four people are in the prayer room constantly - they will be until tomorrow afternoon.
Saturday
Shopping in Crawley again today; Nika and I had ‘brunch’ together at the McDonald’s at ASDA then had fun trying on expensive dresses.
I played soccer for a while with the usual group - Shea, Gert-Jan, Nika, Daniel, Felepe and Vetle. Then I (brace yourselves, those of you who know my exercising habits) went for a jog. I know - ‘tis shocking.
Ruth and I took rapid-fire pictures with her webcam of us making faces and pretending to punch each other and other such fun oddities and she made it into a film - hopefully we’ll be able to get it online to show you.
Daniel’s fraternal twin brother and two best friends are here visiting from Germany and Gert-Jan and I joined them this evening for some time at the pub. Gert-Jan also happens to speak German, so I was the odd one out in the linguistics department - it was fun (if a bit perplexing) trying to follow along with the conversation.
They started really rubbing it in that I couldn’t understand them - when the pub owner’s wife came in to the room, I was looking forward to some English. She spoke to us in German. Oi.
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