And I will undertake all these to teach

Okay, so this is just a really quick post about Saturday and Sunday, and then I'll be 100% caught up.  Exciting, I know.  And it's only 1:00!

Alright, so Saturday Amy, Catherine and I had planned to go to Cadbury world, which is basically like Willie Wonka's chocolate factory, except that it's Cadbury chocolate, which is way more delicious.  However, you have to take a train to get there and the last admittance is at 3:00.  So with that preface, you can pretty much guess what happened.  All of our plans of waking up early and going were shot to pieces because, if you recall, we were all absolutely exhausted from Ireland.  So then we were heading off to the train station to catch a later tour time.  Except for guess what?  The faithful Tube decided to shut down the Victoria line!  This was particularly annoying because it was open the night before when we'd used it to get home.  Yeah, so the whole figuring out what other lines to take and so on and so forth, we didn't get to the train station until it was too late to catch a train that would get us there in time.

Yeah, so major bummer.  Amy and I bought gelato to console ourselves.  Then I just headed back to the center and blogged a lot (Can't you tell?) and do homework.  So it was a fairly productive day, and the evening was fun when everyone got back from all over the place and was telling stories about Rome, and Venice, and Germany, and Paris, and Normandy, and so on and so forth.

I don't have pictures for these days, so this is a random candy bar that I ate in Ireland.  I ignored the instructions.  The store clerk teased me when I bought this.

Alright, onto Sunday.  Basically I spent Sunday morning preparing my Sharing Time lesson.  Yes, that's right folks, I taught Senior Primary sharing time this last week.  In the freaking Spanish branch.  To be quite honest, I haven't been that nervous about something in years.  Churning stomach, sweaty palms, the whole deal whenever I thought about it all morning.  When I actually got there I did a lot better though and was calm, cool, and collected throughout the whole lesson.  You know, besides stumbling over Spanish and getting corrected by the Primary President as to the correct word for the word to grow.  You'd think if I was talking about faith and seeds I would've bothered to cement the word crecer in my mind.

Actually, the whole thing went rather well.  The kids were the best behaved that I've seen them so far.  There were ten of them, and I don't actually quite know all their names.  I'm going to fix that next week when I teach again.  I ran out of initial material after the first fifteen minutes, and I still had ten minutes to go, so we opened up to Alma and read more about seeds and held a discussion about good seeds and bad seeds.  Yeah, I lost their attention the last five minutes.  But they were all intently listening before that, which I was proud of because I wasn't even telling stories, which is sort of my forte in keeping children's attention.  Basically, it was a massive relief, and I'm feeling much more confident about next week as a result.

This is random picture of Molly and I at Primark.  We were bored.  It's kind of THE clothing store around (and I'm not entirely sure if that's London or the Center) but I really didn't feel like shopping that night.

Anyway, ignoring the random picture that I decided to insert for lack of color in this post, there were a couple of other eventful things on Sunday.  The first is that we got two dinner invites (I can't go to one of them, because I have tickets to a play that night), the second that the Branch President realized that next week is our last week and none of us have given a talk (he visibly gulped when we said next week was our last) and the third that it was pouring rain when we got out of church, so we showed up at the Center for dinner positively starving and sopping wet.  Yup, it was pretty awesome.  And I'm on kitchen duty this week, so I ate dinner in about five minutes and then got to jump up (still a bit wet) to help clean up the kitchen.  Joy.