church!

To everyone who my last post confused: it's straightened out now. But please put your name on your texts!

I WENT TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY!!! (For any new readers of this blog, "Sally's continuing mission to find a church family in Ukraine" has been a recurring theme.) It's called Calvary Chapel, and it's a small congregation of 20-40 people in Kharkiv. It's heavily college-aged and international--I met people from the US, Ukraine, Africa, Ireland, and England. The pastor and his wife are a year or so older than I am and have two adorable little kids. The preaching style is expositional rather than topical--Steven, the pastor, is preaching through the Bible chapter by chapter. Currently, we're near the end of Genesis. The music is in Ukrainian and Russian (although it's a lot of worship songs I know from the States, just translated) and the preaching is in English with Russian translation. Church got out at 3:30, and I made a mad dash, complete with running, two different metro lines, and buying a train ticket, to catch the 4pm train home instead of the 5:30. I made it with 6 minutes to spare!

Spring break has been wonderful...ie, I haven't done much. Read a great deal of Orson Scott Card and tried to figure out how much his Mormonism influences his writing (conclusion: a lot), plus decided that everything he wrote besides Ender's Game was fairly mediocre. Brandi, please feel free to comment. :) I leave for Zgurivka tomorrow evening, where I know I will be well-fed and well-loved.

FYI, all my clothes are getting miles too big for me, thanks to walking 20-25 minutes to school and the same distance home twice a day. I haven't lost weight like this since I house-sat two miles away from campus fall semester of my junior year. It's good, but hard on the warderobe.