Our lives have definitely gotten more involved over the past few weeks. It seems like we’ve got at least one social activity a week on top of choir on Tuesday, activities with the youth of our church on Wednesday and volleyball on Thursday. In fact, this next weekend is going to be pretty involved as well: we’re going to watch Grant get his second degree black belt on Friday, I’m taking the written court interpreter exam early on Saturday morning in Sacramento (all prayers on my behalf will be greatly appreciated), on Sunday I’m singing a solo in church and the following Monday I will be interviewing one of the greatest linguists of all time for my blog.
Yesterday Becca, my brother Grant and my grandma Barbara all went up to Sonora for my cousin Brittain’s birthday party. It had been years since I had seen her dad Mark and I never get to see her and my other cousin Jarit very much any more. We were very happy to be invited and loved seeing everyone including my Aunt Carrie, Uncle Frank and Aunt Ruth and Uncle Murray and Aunt Laurie.
We renewed our Blockbuster online subscription. We saw the latest Rocky movie the other night and it was horribly boring. It had some good moments and was trying to communicate a good message but none of that made up for a slowly paced movie that often felt as though it were wandering aimlessly. We also watch TV series on DVD. It’s kind of a bizarre experience to watch a whole month’s worth of episodes in a single evening. Because of this I can no longer stand commercials. It’s kind of like reading a book. In Spanish they use the word capítulo (or chapter instead) of episode for their TV series and now that makes even more sense to me than it did before. I particularly like Detective Goren’s Sherlock Holmes-like character in Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
Two Saturdays ago we helped represent the USA at an international festival put on by the Hispanic Latter-Day Saints in the area. Our table had red, white and blue decorations and we served hotdogs, grilled cheese sandwiches and s’mores. Most of the Latin American countries were also represented and had much more elaborately decorated tables than ours. Their food was pretty tasty as well. There were choreographed dance numbers after that from different Hispanic countries. Interestingly enough, we were introduced to a Brazilian Latter-Day Saint who we’ve become friends with. She even invited us over to her house last Thursday night where we ate traditional Brazilian food and taught her how to play UNO. Her visiting teacher is an old friend of mine (the former Rachel Thompson) and she was also there with her little daughter Becca. It was a very nice evening.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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