Last Night at the Center

SK and I took off this morning - again to explore ways to get to the new center.  We took a bus planning to get off at a certain stop, only to find that it no longer stops at that place!  We ended up walking a lot farther than if we had actually set out walking to the center in the first place.  We were happy though to find that the center was open and there were workmen finishing up.

We walked through, which took very little time, because it is much smaller.  The kitchen was beautiful.  I think I would be thrilled to have one exactly like it in our Arizona home.  There is no room to seat people around a table....there may not even be room to put a table!  But the cabinets, appliances and countertops look great.

But it is small.  And I do not know where we are going to put the 10 boxes full of kitchen stuff.  We will unpack on Monday, and then I will have a better idea of what we can do.  It looks like from here on out, every meal will be eaten on laps, so that will automatically change the menus we have heretofore been preparing.

You cannot eat with any amount of grace using a fork and a knife on a plate on your lap, all the while trying to hold on to a drink.  Danes - like other Europeans eat with their knives in their right hand and their forks in the left.  It is highly efficient, and I am trying to develop that habit.  It is a dead giveaway that we are not Danes when we eat with our right hands, changing every time we want to cut something with a knife!

So we will try to fix things that are not liquid, or that don't have to be cut.  It will still be difficult, because another reason to eat with your fork in the left hand is so that you can deftly scoop things onto the fork with your right hand!  I guess we will get it figured out.

We spent the afternoon getting things ready for the center tonight....we had to carry in everything we needed to use since everything else is packed.  Institute was great, with Brother Andersen using the time for questions and answers.  He is an excellent teacher, and uses the scriptures extensively.

He had some great questions, and he takes each one to the beautiful and simple basics of the Gospel.  Afterwards everyone ate cake until it was gone, played CRUD until they couldn't play any more, visited until they were all talked out.  We cleaned up, closed the windows, turned off the lights and locked the door.  We will miss that place.

On a side note, a young man interviewed SK for a university project.  He spent quite a bit of time with him, and told me after that SK speaks excellent Danish but he has a little bit of an American accent, that  his classmates will find interesting.  He recorded SK's answers and will edit them down to the appropriate amount of time.  The young man who did the interview is kind, funny, helpful, handsome and very nice.  He returned not too long ago from a mission and is a temple worker in his spare time.

We had another good turnout this evening....I hope they will continue to come to the new center.  They enjoy each others' company so much, that they might not even notice it is smaller!