So, I'm in Toulouse now!!! Hurrah!! But since it took me about an hour to write to write my prayer team email, I don't feel like adding another hour of my day on the computer log. So, below, I just copied my prayer email, for people who maybe want to know about what I've been up to: --------------------------------------------------------------- Salut à tout mes aimes dans les Etates-Unis! Hello to my friends in the states! I arrived safely in France last Wednesday morning and have been adjusting ever since. Not only to the time change (7 hours ahead of Central time), the language, and the food, but even to my pillow here, which is a big sausage- shaped roll, and the keyboard is very different. So please excuse any grammarical mistakes! It's been fun so far but also challenging because France is so different from our culture: we do a lot of walking to places and no one ever drinks anything, I feel like a camel!! Our team is extremely blessed thought, because we have extremely nice accommodations in a nunnery (yes, that's right, a convent). We each have our own rooms that they just finished remodeling the day we got here. They look like very spacious dorm rooms and we even have our own bathrooms too! There's also a computer lab with internet here in the convent, since students at the university stay here during the school year. Yesterday (Saturday), we went to a rugby tournament!! Toulouse just won the Euro cup last weekend so they are currently the best team in Europe right now. It was very interesting because we had first row seats but we had no idea what was going on! But we chanted along when we could ("allez" is go and then yelling "Toulouse" when appropriate. This morning, we went to our first french church service. It was interesting because some of the songs were songs I knew in English so it was easier to translate those quick in my head. Thanks to all of you for your prayers and I look forward to writing to you again from La Ville Rose de Toulouse (The Pink City of Toulouse)! "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How, then, can they call on the one they had not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent. As it is written; 'How beautiful are they feet of those who bring good news!'" Romans 10:14-15 ---------------------------------------------------------- I edited it slighty. And I just want to write about one more thing I don't want to forget I saw: a monk, in full white robes, riding a bike, wearing a digital watch and a laptop bag slung over his shoulder. It was so unusual to see and especially funny because his robes were flapping in the wind. That's all for now, over and out; you know you love me ;)