Wednesday randoms...

So, today I got to go to a European mini market.  My friend Lauren was kind enough to take me and it was so cool to walk in and see little grocery items with Russian and Polish and Ukrainian all over it... =)  Not going to lie when I say I was a little happy that the store owner mistook me for an actual Russian girl when he realized I spoke Russian and we started talking.  It was cool to have a random conversation and understand most of it.  I bought a carton of blood orange juice (reminiscent of my times in Ukraine!), some shortbread cookies, a chocolate "snack" as it said, and then - Cherry Vareniki!!  Can't wait to eat those!  =)


Last night before International Thanksgiving dinner, Joe Chen introduced me to Sveta, a Ukrainian biologist on her Fulbright year here at USC - we got to talk for a minute in Russian and it was fun!  We exchanged numbers so hopefully I'll see her again soon - she was very willing to help me practice, which is awesome.  I'd love to tell her about the time I spent in Ukraine.


Had life group today and God is really showing me that He is always in control... AND that following him is sometimes hard but always good... he really encouraged me by the conversation that came out of extra time with one of my girls tonight, too.


Watched some videos on youtube tonight, starting with Matt Chandler's "Jesus wants the rose", which I showed at life group, but then also this one by John Piper.  I just love how the three places he mentioned are: Ukraine, China, and SouthEast Asia (India).  Oh, none of those are connected to me at all.  ;-)


Just some cool things from today... now I have to go read about processing linguistic research - fun.