And Then It Was Tuesday

Tuesday was considerably less exciting. I’m getting the feeling that posts are going to continue to shorten in length and the depth of how interesting they are. Well, posts from days that we don’t travel anyways.

Tuesday I woke up and went to breakfast. I’ve still eaten yogurt/granola with every single meal. That means I’ve eaten yogurt with eleven meals, and odds are the trend will continue. After short talk where they introduced the various religious sisters on campus and their ministries, then we went on an RA guided tour. It was pretty funny, because our guide skipped the parts he didn’t think were important and made sarcastic jokes about the parts he did talk about. As soon as the tour ended I booked it back to our room/apartment/place of residence and grabbed my guitar. Then I headed to Maria Thron for practice. I helped Sister John Paule lead worship for Mass. Then she had me audition for music ministry. The next day I got an email telling me which group I’m in. We’ll be leading worship on Mondays (:
After Mass I chilled in the Church with Jesus for awhile and did some praise and worship with the epic acoustics that are in there. It’s awesome. Then I grabbed some lunch, followed by guided tours of the whole Kartause complex. These are the pics:

Maria Thron:

                  

                     

Old Baroque Library (usually not accessible to students):

 

The ceiling of Maria Thron is actually a newer ceiling. The monks who lived there kept getting sick because the original ceiling was so high and drafty, and they had no heat, so they added a newer one in the Baroque style. We still have access to the older ceiling, and these are the pictures of us walking across the newer one, under the old. There is a small walkway between the old and new tower, and we went around that. The cool pics of the town are from the windows there, and the looking down into the Church are too.

Bell Tower (Old. Dark. Unstable. Fun :)

 

Then, that night, we had a (sort of) surprise birthday party for Emily. They got me grapes so I could eat something while they were eating cake, haha (:
I love my friends.

  

Then I got together with Mel McChesney, Emily Dunphey, and Katie Erskine (Regina Angelorum intents) so we could go through our household box. It’s a tradition for household brothers or sisters to leave useful/funny things behind for future Austria-visiting household members. It was fun. There is also a book filled with advice written by the household sisters who have been here. It’s really awesome the way we are all so connected. I love my household. God is so good to me. (: