I am home! And it is snowing outside. It’s beautiful. Welcome to the Christmas season!
I’m pretty overwhelmed right now, as I try to get back into life here. I visited St. Olaf on Sunday night and nearly drowned in the amount of information I had to process immediately. I was fully aware that time passes at home while you’re gone and I thought I was prepared, but I guess you can’t prepare for it. So now I’m sitting here playing and replaying all the details in my head, trying to get a grip on how my home reality has changed without me since July so I can move on and become a part of it once again. Truth is, I just want it to be January so I can get back to school and start my social clean-up. Ha.
But I am also, as usual, very excited for Christmas. It was hard to believe that winter and December were happening while I was in Tanzania. The occasional Christmas carol would float out of a storefront, but most of Tanzanian life went on as usual without the huge consumerist, snow-obsessed buzz that the United States is used to. Even though I don’t personally like to spend oodles of money on Christmas gifts, I enjoy the cheer and traditions that come with the season and really missed walking through decked out malls and hearing Christmas music 24/7 on the radio. So I’m glad to be home.
At jacob’s well on Sunday, though, they played this video before the service and I quite liked it so I’m linking to it. There’s more discussion of it on this blog post if you’re interested but here’s the video. The video’s home site is www.adventconspiracy.org. Enjoy!
