A Curious Girl: Busy busy busy

I've had an interesting week. Monday I went to see Star Wars with Christina... cool film, although apparently I was whispering 'get on with it' during the love scenes... I'm incorrigable! :)

Tuesday evening I went to James's for a Bible study. Tricia had invited me, promised me a lift back if I wanted! Claire H, Naomi (James's sister), Jess, and Simon from Church were there, along with Simon's mum... It was good, I could feel really at home there. Afterwards I talked with James (who didn't turn up to the Bible study because he's ill, poor thing. They still don't know what's wrong.). He managed to reduce me to stitches when we were for some reason discussing Miss Havisham, and how Miss Havisham is my GCSE English teacher and Mr. E my chemistry teacher is the one who abandoned her on her wedding day... he ran off with the science lab. If you know Mr. E, you'll understand! And then when they were all sitting around discussing church membership, James and I ended up in a discussion about leaders etc. James reckons he could rule the world. I was saying how the history of civilisation proves that God is better at leading than us. 'We say, "let him be leader" and it doesn't work... "let her lead us" and it turns out badly.'

'Even worse because it's a her,' James said.

I leapt across the room at lightning speed... it was quite spectacular :) ....and was about to pound him into little bits...

'I'm ill!' he protested.

'Not that ill,' Tricia said.

Mwahahahahaha.

Wednesday was our last Christian Union session ever, Duck, Sarah, Will, Mrs. Cook, Christina and I were there. Mainly chatting and prayer... at the end, Mrs. Cook gave Christina and I cards and a fat church candle and stand each! In the evening I went to Faith and Light, which (for the benefit of Duck ;-) ) is a club for special needs adults and their families, and I help out.

When I was there, I saw a couple of girls, one of whom I recognise from school. It's quite amazing, I missed last time and everyone missed me! Even the two new girls had heard about it... It was a great evening, dancing to 'We wanna see Jesus lifted high' with flags, and at the end, singing 'God save the Queen' for the Jubilee. Best version of the National Anthem I've ever taken part in - so enthusiastic! And most of them knew the words!! The Queen would have been so proud. At the Annual Ordeal ( ;) ), I've been told off for singing along... probably because I actually know the words. I mean, it's not the best-crafted song in the world but it is our national anthem, come on guys.

When I got home, Father Chris, a priest that knows Steve who I've also met, was 'round. *sigh* I didn't enjoy seeing him as much as I thought I would, we ended up discussing evolution and he was effectively saying that Protestants are narrow-minded. For a moment I thought he was getting at me (silly!) and I nearly said something like, 'Well I'm glad I don't have a denomination'... or even, 'I'm glad I'm a Christian then.' But then I remembered that he might even have forgotten that I'm not Catholic. It rather irked me the way he was saying that Protestants take things literally - like the Tree of Knowledge - and believe Bishop Usher etc., but it's not like he could give any suitable defences to Clive's remarks about not being able to take Communion because he's divorced, it was just so irritating.

It was encouraging when he said he'd taken theology as the ultimate consummation of science, though :) He used to do science...

Thursday was great, Dr. A gave us a Wordsworth Quizette which we did not even pretend to take seriously (though I did rather well) and read some of the quotes we'd collected from him over the years. In Diggers' lesson, he brought in a cake with all our names on! It was so sweet... both as a gesture and as a cake. He didn't even eat a piece himself. After that he read us the genuine exam answers (you know, 'The climate of the Sarah desert is such that the inhabitants are forced to live elsewhere') and gave us the last English quiz. Christina and I won, although we were so stuffed full of cake we passed around the chocolates we won, although I did manage a few later :) During lunch some of the peeps in L6 played Trivial Pursuit, with kids questions. After lunch, Dr. D's lesson, and we basically hung around... Ben and Ellie (I've never mentioned them, this is for my own future reference) had a water fight, and Ben used our Cadbury's Heroes bucket from English to threaten Dr. D. He actually threw it at him. I have an action shot of this, but for some reason I was still surprised...

After doing various doodlings on the board, I eventually left, went home and started sorting through my photos. I didn't get time to upload them, which is probably a good thing, as I just know I would have spent all my frees today printing them off and sticking them in my book.

Anyway, that was the week. I'm going to give today its own separate entry :)

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