21 septembre 2014

I've been having a really difficult time falling asleep (starting from Thursday night) so I woke up super late today (around 12PM?). I grabbed a late lunch with Natasha and Justine before going to the American Library in Paris for their Open House (at which point, Curran joined us)! It was a lot less interesting than I thought and we ended up leaving after Natasha got her library card. HOWEVER, we saw a gorgeous man who resembled Matt Bomer AND he was wearing an elephant vest. So obviously... obviously nothing. Haha but I was considering volunteering at the library and now I am more motivated to do it than ever! I'll get back to you on that once my Phonetics class ends at the beginning of October...

Afterwards, I headed off to the Hillsong Church in Paris for their 17h30 service. It was SO refreshing to have a service in English for the first time in months! It was also really cool because I learned some religion-related words and sang Hillsong songs in French (they projected both the English and French lyrics so I could compare). I was really moved by how welcoming everyone was and by the worship. HOWEVER, I am definitely going to stay alert because Hillsong is a pretty charismatic church and I don't want to get too desensitized to that and overemphasize the importance of emotions in my faith. Anyways, the message wasn't all that deep, but I think it is better for me to understand 100% of a just-okay English message than 50% of a Korean message (I can't even tell you if it was good or not because I didn't understand much LOL). And in case you're judging me for being bad at Korean, I usually understand like 85% of my dad's messages; but I swear the Korean in France is different or something because I found the sermons at BOTH French-Korean churches I went to to be difficult to understand. Meh. Still trying to decide which church to go to. Oh yea, and the church is located inside a theater. Hrm...

OH YEA in the lobby a random girl came up to me and asked me if I was Korean. She only saw me pass by so I don't know how she could tell, but it was cool to see that I am not the only Asian (let alone only Korean) at Hillsong! Instant friends woohoo! (Honestly, it was just nice to know that I don't look as Chinese as people in France make me think I do)

Some videos of the praise/prayer to come! EVERYTHING is translated from English->French or vice versa. Cool stuff yo...