I found a church!!! On my way home from a day trip to Boston (when you live in CT you can take those) I googled "Vineyard churches Connecticut" on my phone and discovered two Vineyard churches. Since I know quite a few people who attend the Vineyard church back home and have attended on occasion myself I knew that it would be similar to my home church. The closest one of the two churches that popped up was down in West Haven, a good fifty minute drive from where I am. The drive doesn't bother me, since I know I'll be moving south of Hartford soon enough and therefore be closer to the church.
The moment I walked in the front door I was greeted by the pastor's wife, who proceeded to ask me questions and introduced me to everyone that walked through the doors. Before service began I had found a girl close to my age who is originally from Illinois and sat near me during the service. after service they have a fellowship time with food and coffee, and my new acquaintence allowed me to follow her around and introduced me to two other girls and their husbands and before I knew it I had been invited to lunch! On the whole this was an entirely different experience than the church last week and I loved every moment of it.
As aforementioned, I spent Saturday in Boston with a good friend of mine. I arrived around 11:30am and called my friend to tell him I had arrived and accidentally woke him up. Apparently he'd been at his parent's 25th anniversary party until 4am. Even so, he managed to wake up and we took off for food and then to take the train into downtown Boston. J'ADORE Boston!!! The train reminded me very much of Chicago, which was fun, and for the first hour or two we wandered through the Boston Common which was absolutely packed due to the beautiful weather. The rest of the day was spent walking the Freedom Line, a path that takes you to every possible important historical building or graveyard in the city. I saw the Old North Church, the Old State House, the location of the Boston so-called Massacre, walked past Paul Revere's house without even seeing it, and went to two graveyards to see the tombstones of famous people like Mother Goose and Samuel Adams. We did deviate from the path to get some Italian food at this amazing restaurant called Al Dente, but for the most part we walked what felt like miles and just talked about everything and anything. So pretty much, I just had the perfect weekend.
Well, almost.
I discovered that I still can't get a library card. Unless I have an official document to prove I live here I can't get one. One of the other librarians had told me I could bring in any envelope with my name and current address on it and I could get a card, but it's not so. So I'm still stuck without a card and highly annoyed about it.
Other than the above, I finished my first week and work and still like my job! I know, who knew, right? I really enjoy the people I work with, one of whom is actively helping me find apartments, another who claims she would hook me up with one of her fiances friends if any of them were single, and another who is just absolutely hilarious. There isn't a single person in my training class that I don't enjoy talking to, and that's really saying something. We've finally passed the boring stage of the job and have finally begun to learn the things that will really matter, like the intricacies of various phone plans and where to find information about phone accessories on the intranet. Supposedly we'll be on overload by the end of seven weeks but that's awhile from now.
One thing about my new life here that I suppose is a good thing is that I find other things to do besides sitting at my computer checking facebook and chatting because internet isn't readily available.
At some point in the future I will be posting pictures on this blog as well, but we'll see how long it takes before that happens.
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