Sunday, March 30, 2008
Getting Situated
Yesterday our new friend here at St Andrews, Elizabeth, invited Sharon and me to come to her church, St Andrews Baptist, which meets just outside of the main town in a school theatre. While the setting was not exactly the most inspiring (especially in comparison with the Paris cathedral we worshipped in last week for Easter Sunday) the people were extremely welcoming and the service was outstanding.... [The rest of this entry appears in the first comment. Click on the entry title above to read on (in this case- Getting Situated). I'm going to start doing this from now on so that more entries appear on the home page.]
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We ended up having Elizabeth and her flatmate Jo Ann over for lunch and visited for most of the afternoon. Jo Ann is studying at the St Andrews Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts so I was very interested to hear about her experiences.
After lunch Sharon and I cleaned up and then I decided to go for a run around town. I ended up jogging down to the West Sands beach (where the opening sequence of Chariots of Fire was filmed...I could almost hear the music). I still can't get over the scenery here! While I was running on the beach a rainbow formed over the ocean to my right, extending toward the rugged medieval buildings of the University. To my left, under broken patches of threatening clouds, the undulating greens of the famous 'old course' where golf was invented rose and fell like a blanket in mid-furl as I ran by. And, in front of me the wet sands of a wide low-tide beach and the white foam arcs of waves in the distance provided the foreground for a maginicent view of rolling snow-dusted hills in the north. I had to stop to breathe it all in...and also simply to breathe (I haven't been running much lately).
When I got back to our flat Sharon and I decided to go back to the grocery store (Tesco's) to pick up a few things we forgot yesterday, then we cooked dinner (cheeseburgers...we were both craving something American). We are relaxing the rest of tonight. [The rest of my entry]...Tomorrow feels like the first real day we'll have here, since I will be meeting with the Fellowship coordinator who will officially welcome me to St Andrews and give me my ID badge for the library, etc. Sharon and I are both anxious to start working on the projects we have set out for ourselves. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers! Until tomorrow.
Hey Mr. Estes!
So i am very jealous of you based on your descriptions of St. Andrews! It sounds like such a beautiful and amazing place. I hope you enjoy yourself immensely!
Grace to you,
Sarah M.
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