We had a full afternoon of workshops. Willie from Holland, a Reform Church pastor, gave a wonderful workshop on Queer Theology and Reading the Bible. It was clear and orderly. there was good dialogue and excellent questions and comments. I decided to skip the next workshop when I heard there was now hot water in our building. I came back to my room and took a nice long warm shower and washed my hair. Now I'm catching up on this blog.
There is only internet service from the main building. I've been in withdrawal all day. You know how I start feeling crazy when I don't know what's happening with my peeps! Sometime before bed I'll go over and get online to post this blog online and put up some pictures from my walking tour of Moscow.
I have a workshop at 8pm on what church needs to look like in Eastern Europe and then there's a movie. I'll probably skip the movie and seek an internet wifi signal.
Late Friday night. Before I went down to supper, I put on my Orthodox cassock and outer cassock because I wanted to wear it for my presentation. It's raining lightly and isn't very cool out. It's after 11 and we just finished our evening activities. I gave my 8pm presentation to a packed room. It was a good session and well-received.
We all hung out and several groups set out display tables about their country and organizations. a bottle or six of wine made way around the tables and several started dancing to various music. It was so fun to watch. A Ukrainian group presented me with a jar of home-made blackberry jam, specialty of Krivoy Rog. A singer song-writer gave me his CD as a gift. He will perform several songs tomorrow during one of our sessions. I got to know several people I hadn't met before and couldn't believe it got to 11 so quickly.
It was a really good day, even if I am still in internet shock from not being connected.
Tomorrow promises to be a really long day too.
I walked back through the rain to my building.
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