Well, as of today I am no longer an Intern with the Society of St. John the Evangelist.
This past few days has been a strange experience.
Our last Sabbath was spent largely together. I was really tired Sunday evening so I did largely my own thing and slept alot.
Monday the four of us plus the Brother who has taught our class all year went to a baseball game. It was in a place called Pawtucket Rhode Island. The team was called the Pawtucket Red Sox, or the Paw Sox for short. The game was lots of fun. It was about 3hrs, with having to drive about an hour each way. That sounds like a lot of time but it flew by.
The Brother sat next to me and since he's such a big baseball fan, he'd give me the play-by-play. It helps that I understand so much about baseball from having played so many baseball video games as a kid, lol. I brought my monocular too.
We had our picture taken but I haven't seen evidence of it yet, I'll have to check Facebook and if its there, share it with you guys.
So Tuesday was a weird day. It was the day of the dinner celebrating our time with the Brothers and sending us off.
We had a lot of free time day. Frankly I don't remember what I did that day, I'm pretty sure I spent time with the other interns. Later that evening at the 5:30 Eucharist, Br. Mark, the Internship Director delivered a sermon directed specifically at us. He gave us things to 'remind everyone else of'. These were things like putting things aside, remembering that no one is every going to completely get a hang of 'this Christianity thing', and some other things. I'm not too concerned with remembering it all because I'm going to paste the link here.
And here it is: http://ssje.org/sermons/?p=3511
(you'll most likely have to copy and paste that into the box at the top of the internet page, also called the address bar)
Afterwards we went and had an amazing dinner, which the chef, Walter stayed to prepare for our dinner. Earlier in the day we had a Golden Bourscht- amazing.
But anyway, we had pork, mashed potatoes, turnips-carrots-and parsnips, a salad, and chocolate cake with festive drinks. It was also Tedi's birthday which was cool.
After we'd had our fill, Br. Geoffrey, the Superior delivered a toast to us individually. They were all pretty funny. Mine mainly was a thanking me for my service. Apparently I tend to ask how I can be helpful and that was very appreciated by the Brothers. It was a very bitter-sweet evening.
Wednesday was weird too. We had a lot more free time on our hands then we were used to so I found myself just chillin' with the guys upstairs. It was nice just to do that.
Rob left yesterday right after Eucharist. I was in the Scholla with two of the Brothers, which went amazingly well, I had no trouble reading anything.
The strange part yesterday happened when a guest sat in Rob's spot during Noonday Prayer. My first thought was, 'hey you can't sit there.' Evidently I'm not the only one who had that same reaction, with one of the Brothers remarking later 'his spot wasn't even cold yet.' It's amazing what we get used to.
I didn't do anything yesterday afternoon, my plan is to finish all of the books I've started this year. I've got 6 Chapters left in the Sparrow, pretty much the entire book of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and I downloaded an audio book of Christianity the first three thousand years, about a week ago and am in the middle of chapter one. That plan should give me plenty to do.
My work schedule is largely what I've been doing, we're going to take it day-by-day with the Guest Brother going behind me checking up on things.
Well that's the bell for Eucharist.
I'm grateful for this experience.
Until later friends
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