Today was success. We woke up latish, had a breakfast of homemade French toast, socialized with real people, had an unofficial Easter egg hunt and climbed the Saleve. The Easter egg hunt involved Allen (son/brother), Evelyn and I, the first two of which are Jewish. But you know, I actually have a few Jewish friends so I'm used to celebrating Christian holidays with Jews, or Jewish holidays as a Christian. I think it's rather cool, and as I've said, I'm not even hardly religious at all. Hence my plan/dream to become a Unitarian Universalist when I get back. But anyway, so yeah we found the chocolate eggs and stuff.
Zach decided to stay home (he was "tired") and so we jumped in the two cars and proceeded to repeat one of my favorite hikes. We had done the Saleve a few months ago, and you can get the full story (like, more than you want really) by clicking on this ancient post. It was hard and I was definitely out of shape, but it was rather fun, really. We had the 4 photographers again, so a few extra stops. It was nice weather, not too cold or hot and of course came with a complimentary lunch with bread, cheese and chocolate. Good stuff, you know. The bread was sort of soft though, the kind that's still hard so it makes your teeth uncomfortable.
When we got back, all tired and sweating in our mostly made-in-some-Asian-country shirts, we played cards, took turns messing around on the guitar and even caught some of the Detroit Red Wings vs. Chicago Blackhawks game. Anne (mom's friend/mom/wife) is actually an enthusiastic hockey player, so that's cool. Paul has an awesome camera that I am envious of, and knows some guitar.
Now I'm smelling of deoderant, tired and probably in jeopardy of too much chocolate. Wait. That was probably the wrong usage of jeopardy. But I don't feel like going back to change it.
I did my "best" at being social with Evelyn and Allen, and here it goes.
"So... do you like Harry Potter?" I of course knew the answer; who doesn't like that series, I mean seriously. There were those few people that say stuff like "Eh... I haven't read it." or like "I really need to read it!" or like "Nah." but generally I find that's rather rare. Alas, I wasn't disappointed with Evelyn's answer, who said a version of "yes".
"Yeah. I noticed you had the Twilight books in your room.. which is better- Twilight or Harry Potter?" Evelyn asked after discussing very briefly our Harry Potter opinions.
"Harry Potter, definitely." We then went on to discuss the Twilight series, luckily generally coming to the conclusion that Twilight wasn't actually all that good. She had a good point though, that if you like those kinds of books with lots of romance and stuff, it was good. Otherwise, it was eh.
I brought up the subject of Harry Potter again on the hike, but because of our ragged breathing and different paces, it was hard to socialize. They'll leave tomorrow, after we take a trip on the lake and stuff. I haven't been able to be on the computer much at all, which actually I don't mind. It's nice to take a break from the pixeled life.
3 comments:
UUs aren't a group of people who have no religion, it's a group of people who are brought together by love and acceptance. There are christians and jews at UU, and technically UU is a christian church. If you just want to go there because you think that its a place for people with no religion, you should think again.
Well someone is a little quick to judge (it's one sentence). As a person who didn't have a religion and didn't really want one who began going to the UU church I think Amelia's attitude is right. The UU sect I attend lets you form your own religious attitudes. You can be religious through prayer, meditation, gardening, writing, etc. It definitely isn't a gathering of people with no religion, but a gathering of people that chose to dictate their own personal spiritual experience. Good post Amelia!
Ah. Yes well. Let's clear up some stuff.
I'm sorry if I offended you, anonymous, and/or other UUs, because I guess I sort of phrased things wrong.
No, I knew that UU's weren't like 0% religion, but I was just sort of making the point that I wasn't very religious, and therefore sort of didn't believe in much, and was also under the impression that UU's normally don't have many or abrupt beliefs... it's varied, is what I was getting at. Again, I apologize. Yes, UU's believe stuff, maybe some don't at all, it's varied it's... yes. "Brought together by love and acceptance"; I still feel like I'd fit in with that. So uh yeah.
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