In commemoration of the Holiday (at home) yesterday, I stopped for two choclate bars on the way back to the Monastery. One of the shortcuts between school and StB's is an undergound mall ... which has been very convenient these rainy days ... so I stopped to explore the candy aisle in the Target-like place.
Today, after lunch, I went into the big department store to pick up a few supplies ....one of which being a larger dictionary. I had brought one of those little pocket dictionaries (about the size of a pack of cigarettes) but that's proving to be more and more difficult to use ... not because of the German, but because of MY EYES. So this one is about the size of a paperback ... more user-friendly, for sure.
Got some laundry done yesterday without boiling the socks or roasting the shirts.
The expereince of living in a small urban community is, needless to say, very different from that of the large rural midwestern monastery. The other day there were five (yes, 5) of us at Vespers. Through it all, the lessons we received in "monastic etiquette" during the Novitiate are serving me well (Vielen dank, Pater Aelred).
The class time really flies by, and we haven't had lots of homework, which means it's not overly taxing. The challenge is sufficient without it becoming a burden ... so far.
2 comments:
Chocolate bars???? Seriously Julian, I know you mentioned something about buying candy cigarettes in an underground Target and boiling your socks during vespers, but all I really want to hear is a review of the chocolate bars........jeez.
German Chocolate is some of the best. Have you see any Balsen that we can't get over here????
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