Baptistery

This morning I was so tired I woke up at 7:30 to go to the bathroom and then said screw it and went back to bed until 8. I went to get breakfast and found Madame had bought pain au chocolat’s instead of rolls this time! They don’t even need anything put on them! It was a win so I grabbed a banana and some oranges and had breakfast really fast because I got to skip getting a bunch of dishes and things out. I brushed my hair put on clothes and then headed out. It was harder to put on clothes today as I couldn’t lean four inches forward without a lot of back pain. I am missing my chiro… Like a lot. I think I might ask housing what the situation is with that and if the insurance we have pays for those. Plus I need to talk to her anyways from my last visit to get my money back.

So I got to school and went and put my laptop in my locker knowing that today we were having a visit to the cathedral so I would have to carry it around in my backpack for an hour. I decided that was a bad idea. So the locker was a smart move. We went and met outside the cathedral and then started out class after checking everyone was there. My professor first started by asking if any of us were gypsy or arab because I guess on the news there is a big thing going around that a girl was taken out of a class trip by the police because they found the parents in france illegally but then their born on French soil daughter had to go with them I guess that is the gyst from what I understood but then now it is a big question of rights and stuff so that’s why he brought it up so we would be aware of it.

We went into the cathedral and learned today about the baptistery. It was pretty cool looking and pretty pretty. We learned that a lot of it has been redone since 120 BC. SURPRISE! And a bunch of stuff about the room like that the doors to enter was the west and leaving was the east so that you would enter towards the sun/god. That was kind of a cool idea to me. Also we learned that there are eight pillars because the resurrection happened on the eighth day. Which is not to say he was in the grave eight days but it is an expression. In other words, I do believe that Jesus rose on the third day.   The third day after he was in the grave three days and three nights and the third day He rose from the dead.   It wasn’t eight days, but from another standpoint, even a biblical stand point; He was the firstborn of a new creation, the eighth day that’s referred to in the Bible as a new beginning. (Found on the internet not my words but I was curious myself) But I thought that was pretty cool. We talked about the baptism bath and how they did used to do full dunks before the Catholic started doing sprinklings. And then after that they added oil on the shoulders after the baptism because the oil was supposed to keep the devil from getting to you because he would slide off? Not sure how much to believe but I will keep it for now so I remember it for my tests. The room itself was pretty cool and used to only have one window directly above the pool so I thought that was pretty dramatic.

After that we went and walked around and found these little tiny streets that you could barely walk side by side with someone on which were what road in the first century were like. Very small! After that class was done and I went back to the school. I watched Spencers Minecraft videos and ate some oranges and then we tried to set up a livestream but it didn’t work today. Then I spent a lot of time fixing some of my blogs/ writing them and also uploading pictures to Facebook before it like started erroring out and not letting me anymore. Then I took blogs and edited them and put them up on the WOU blog which I haven’t remembered to do all month… oops. I knew I would always forget to do that while I was here. I even said that at the very beginning! But I did that and it took a very long time. I ran to the a place and got a slice of pizza for lunch and then a friend of mine gave me the rest of their lunch that they were going to throw away. But that was in the middle of all the uploading and blog changing.

Cassandra came down and gave me my package slip to take to the other building to redeem my package(s) so then we went to get a snack at the Casino and then I went to get my package. I was glad the heating pad was here because I was really in need of it! I went and watched project runway with my heating pad and by the time it was over I had to go up to class in the other building so I packed up all my stuff and marched over there. Class was pretty good and not super hard. Our final on Wednesday isn’t something that is study able because it is going to be a translation from French to English and then one vice versa so really there isn’t a way to study. But I kind of like that because then I can’t get really stressed out over it, which is a good thing. But also scary because I don’t know how well I will do on it since I sort of struggle with my verb tenses and their English equivalents so maybe I will try to study that. Because I know them all I just forget them so fast.

After class I packed all my stuff home and then went and talked to Madame. I gave Beebow his mice fro mom and he loved them. I think they might not have catnip here because I tried to explain it to Madame and she had no idea what I was talking about. We watched French Price is Right and I studied for my History midterm tomorrow over a really broad subject that is all but one week of what we have studied so far. I’m a little nervous for the test and also not looking forward to doing it. After the show got over we had dinner. Madame told me that tonight we were trying something new and I had a gut feeling it was going to be the fish soup. It was. It was also not very good… I said I didn’t really like it much when she asked so that she wouldn’t make it again because I really didn’t like it. It was purr’ed thank goodness or I would have died but it still just tasted like salty stinky fish. I tried to cover it up with croutons and cheese but that just made it worse because I have to chew the croutons instead of swallowing the soup as quick as I could to not taste it. I only threw up in my mouth once. Which I count as a success. About half way through the bowl Paul called Madame so I was saved a bit of time to recoup. I strongly considered how long I would have until she came back and whether I could quickly dump it but then decided it would be really bad if I got caught doing that. But I was struggling to get any more down. I ooured myself a big glass of water and tried to keep going. Fortunately Paul came in to show me a big snake toy he bought at Ikea. It was taller than him standing up. It was very long. It was a puppet too so he really liked it. I have the most fluent conversations with Paul and I seem to understand him the best of everyone. He even has a more advanced vocabulary than me and I still understand him better than anyone else. I don’t know why. Maybe he just uses more common phrases?

When Paul left Madame came and sat down and then looked at me and took my bowl away half done. I think she could tell by a look on my face or something but she knew I didn’t like it. She said well don’t force yourself this isn’t Germany and then brought out cheese for me. I had two helpings of that in place of dinner but I know I will be starving in the morning. I guess I was glad I got to try the soup but I am very glad to not need to again. Madame told me its too bad because it is good for my health just like Tomatoes. I refrained from saying yeah but they will kill my throat when I have to throw them up because my gag reflex hates them. I was already feeling sick from the soup.

After that we had crepes which were good I had a nutella, a sugar, and a jam crepe. All very good! Then I got online and Skyped Thad who I hadn’t talked to in a long while. It was nice to talk to him as always. We talked a lot about religious stuff today because I wanted to ask him about stuff I had learned about at the Cathedral. It was good but all too soon he had to go to lunch and signed out. He seems to have a hectic week ahead of him. After that I studied a little more and then Madame and I went to bed.