“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
that quote just made me giggle this morning....so i thought i'd share. :)
I don't have much time to write as I have a TON of homework to get done today. But I just thought I'd do a quick recap of my week. It really wasn't too eventful as I was stuck in bed for 2 straight days and the next few days after that I didn't do much of anything as I still was pretty sick. I'm still fighting whatever this bug is...but at least it's sort of settled as just a head cold which i can deal with!
I got to work another shift in the coffee shop which was a blast other than feeling rather sick about halfway through my shift and wishing i could just crawl back into bed for another day or two.
Other than that...we had a sweet sweet dance party randomly in our kitchen saturday night. i'm not sure how we even squeezed so many people in that teeny kitchen let alone had room to dance but we did and it was AMAZING. my flatmates are pretty rad that's for sure! sorry to everyone in the neighborhood we kept up so late..haha
And sunday after church Matt, Aaron, Shane and Hannah came for a visit and it was oh so good. we wandered the streets of york, went to look at the minster, and then hung out in the cutest little pub ever and talked for hours about anything and everything. It was good fun and was sweet to have some of my friends from Warrington meet some of my bible college friends and roommates. So that was definitely the highlight of my week.
And here I am...Monday afternoon...thinking goodness i have a LOT of homework to do...i maybe be one of the best procrastinators out there. haha. Goodmorning washington, and goodafternoon england. I best scoot! <3
Monday, February 23, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
So, I've been sick and stuck in bed for two days straight now...i figure by like 8:30 tonight I will have slept about 38 of the past 48 hours...yeah, that's a lot of sleep! especially for me! It's been no fun really, i've missed two days of classes which i now have to make up for, and i'm going stir crazy just laying in bed all the time. But luckily i think all this sleep has been paying off as i'm slowly but surely feeling a bit better and laughing a bit more.
what a blessing though! our internet in the flat seems to be sort of working again! it's not always reliable...and when to many people get on it's really really slow...BUT...even the possibility of being able to connect from our flat is nice.
Other than being sick, not much is new here. I get to work in the coffee shop for my M1 which is such a blessing. I'm so excited to really learn about the art and history of coffee which is something i've wanted to learn more about for a long time and just haven't really had anyone to teach me. so i'm really quite excited for this opportunity to work with people who really care about the quality of their coffee...watch out tri cities..i'm coming home pickier than ever about my coffee!
anyway, since i've not uploaded one yet...here are my lovely roommates!
oh how i love these girls! :)
what a blessing though! our internet in the flat seems to be sort of working again! it's not always reliable...and when to many people get on it's really really slow...BUT...even the possibility of being able to connect from our flat is nice.
Other than being sick, not much is new here. I get to work in the coffee shop for my M1 which is such a blessing. I'm so excited to really learn about the art and history of coffee which is something i've wanted to learn more about for a long time and just haven't really had anyone to teach me. so i'm really quite excited for this opportunity to work with people who really care about the quality of their coffee...watch out tri cities..i'm coming home pickier than ever about my coffee!
anyway, since i've not uploaded one yet...here are my lovely roommates!
oh how i love these girls! :)
Saturday, February 14, 2009
14-2-09
yesterday was such a good day. i got up, went to morning devotionals. and the boys suprised all us girls with roses. which was so sweet of them!
then i got to go work my first shift at the coffee shop here. i've missed working with coffee soo soo much! I'm so excited to be back at it and learning more about the art and history of coffee. it's nice to work in a place that truly cares about the quality of the coffee they serve!
after that i played a little ping pong with my poor sick roommate. and got an email with the most exciting news. my brother is engaged! how awesome is that! seriously, it's such a blessing! his fiance is amazing and i can't wait for her to be my sister-in-law :D
also, friday and saturday nights are open flat nights so the guys are girls are allowed in the first floor kitchen/livingroom areas in the flats. it's the only time we're allowed to go into eachothers flats so it's nice to just hang out with eachother. flat 9 (my flat) was definitely the place to be last night. we had some seriously sweet music going on...rach was on her guitar and lydia on her violing and eventually they let me join in with the harmonica..yeah, that's right...i was playing the harmonica! haha. it was sweet and more and more people kept venturing over and eventually we were just having a sweet worship session. seriously, what an amazing way to spend a friday night!
all of this was of course followed by ridiculous amounts of laughter in my room before bed.
....
"two things...your leaves are purple...and they are green."
<3 I LOVE my flat! and especially my room :D
then i got to go work my first shift at the coffee shop here. i've missed working with coffee soo soo much! I'm so excited to be back at it and learning more about the art and history of coffee. it's nice to work in a place that truly cares about the quality of the coffee they serve!
after that i played a little ping pong with my poor sick roommate. and got an email with the most exciting news. my brother is engaged! how awesome is that! seriously, it's such a blessing! his fiance is amazing and i can't wait for her to be my sister-in-law :D
also, friday and saturday nights are open flat nights so the guys are girls are allowed in the first floor kitchen/livingroom areas in the flats. it's the only time we're allowed to go into eachothers flats so it's nice to just hang out with eachother. flat 9 (my flat) was definitely the place to be last night. we had some seriously sweet music going on...rach was on her guitar and lydia on her violing and eventually they let me join in with the harmonica..yeah, that's right...i was playing the harmonica! haha. it was sweet and more and more people kept venturing over and eventually we were just having a sweet worship session. seriously, what an amazing way to spend a friday night!
all of this was of course followed by ridiculous amounts of laughter in my room before bed.
....
"two things...your leaves are purple...and they are green."
<3 I LOVE my flat! and especially my room :D
Friday, February 6, 2009
February 6
so...i had my first visitor today! :)
Aaron caught the train over from uni to visit for the afternoon. we spend all morning walking around york so he could show me all his favorite places and shops. it was nice to have someone who sort of knew their way around with me for once. and boy was it nice to see a familiar face! we walked for hours, and stopped for tea, and later for coffee. any excuse to sit inside and warm up for a bit! but we also took a walk down by the river which was nice as i hadn't been down there yet and it is quite pretty. to be honest, all of york is quite beautiful....it seems no matter what street you turn down there is an old church just around every corner that just takes your breath away. after having our fill of walking circles around town we went to check out York Minster. We went in and took a walk through the minster just being blown away by it's size and the amazing detail in the carvings, windows, walls...just everything was absolutely breathtaking. And it was all made for Jesus which is just awesome.
we took the tower tour and climbed up a billion teeny little steps on this skinny spiral staircase to get up to the tip top of the minster...
first stop was the rooftop rail walk...then more stairs that just seemed to get steeper and scarier as we went up. it's a miracle neither of us fell up or down those stairs!
it was a lovely day indeed. i got to explore new bits of York, found the way to the train station, and finally a place with a good internet connection...Borders. haha. yay! :)
Aaron caught the train over from uni to visit for the afternoon. we spend all morning walking around york so he could show me all his favorite places and shops. it was nice to have someone who sort of knew their way around with me for once. and boy was it nice to see a familiar face! we walked for hours, and stopped for tea, and later for coffee. any excuse to sit inside and warm up for a bit! but we also took a walk down by the river which was nice as i hadn't been down there yet and it is quite pretty. to be honest, all of york is quite beautiful....it seems no matter what street you turn down there is an old church just around every corner that just takes your breath away. after having our fill of walking circles around town we went to check out York Minster. We went in and took a walk through the minster just being blown away by it's size and the amazing detail in the carvings, windows, walls...just everything was absolutely breathtaking. And it was all made for Jesus which is just awesome.
we took the tower tour and climbed up a billion teeny little steps on this skinny spiral staircase to get up to the tip top of the minster...
first stop was the rooftop rail walk...then more stairs that just seemed to get steeper and scarier as we went up. it's a miracle neither of us fell up or down those stairs!
it was a lovely day indeed. i got to explore new bits of York, found the way to the train station, and finally a place with a good internet connection...Borders. haha. yay! :)
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
4-2-09
I think I’m officially an English person….I successfully even write the date like they do without even thinking of it. I’m gonna be one confused monkey when I get home! Haha. Okay so I suppose that really doesn’t make me an English person at all….
I just finished my second day of classes, and let me just say it is gonna be a lot of work this semester, but I’m so excited for all I’m going to learn! My classes are great. Tuesday and Thursdays I have Romans and intro. to biblical Hebrew (yikes! Learning Hebrew looks like it’s gonna be tough already..but I’m determined to do it!) Hermeneutics and Apologetics. I have 2 teachers, each teaching two of my classes. It’s a neat little campus here..only about 40 students and one of my classes only has 5 people in it. I have a feeling by the end of the semester we’ll all be one big family.
I’m slowly but surely finding my way around this new city. I haven’t been lost again since that first episode..but I also haven’t freely wandered the way I did that day. I’ve been pretty careful about how far I go and remember (or at least trying to remember) my way back!
I’m definitely falling in love with york. It’s absolutely freezing, but so beautiful! Okay, that was quick I know..but they’re closing the coffee shop early so I’m getting kicked outta here and off the internet!
Miss you all, but I’m definitely loving it here!
Thanks for prayers and such.
OH! and….mail…please send me love letters ☺ it’s so nice to hear from home!
Julie Arthurs
9 Barbican Road
York
YO10 5AA
England
I just finished my second day of classes, and let me just say it is gonna be a lot of work this semester, but I’m so excited for all I’m going to learn! My classes are great. Tuesday and Thursdays I have Romans and intro. to biblical Hebrew (yikes! Learning Hebrew looks like it’s gonna be tough already..but I’m determined to do it!) Hermeneutics and Apologetics. I have 2 teachers, each teaching two of my classes. It’s a neat little campus here..only about 40 students and one of my classes only has 5 people in it. I have a feeling by the end of the semester we’ll all be one big family.
I’m slowly but surely finding my way around this new city. I haven’t been lost again since that first episode..but I also haven’t freely wandered the way I did that day. I’ve been pretty careful about how far I go and remember (or at least trying to remember) my way back!
I’m definitely falling in love with york. It’s absolutely freezing, but so beautiful! Okay, that was quick I know..but they’re closing the coffee shop early so I’m getting kicked outta here and off the internet!
Miss you all, but I’m definitely loving it here!
Thanks for prayers and such.
OH! and….mail…please send me love letters ☺ it’s so nice to hear from home!
Julie Arthurs
9 Barbican Road
York
YO10 5AA
England
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