Our day started out with breakfast!!!!! I normally sit and read while I eat some cereal and that is just great. I enjoy that. But this morning, Elder and Sister Middlemas AND SK and I sat down and enjoyed a leisurely breakfast while we visited. It is so fascinating to hear about the challenges they face, and the faith that keeps them going forward....as well as the many tender mercies in their lives that reinforce their testimonies that the Lord is very aware of them, and has placed them where he needs them.
Today was also a Danish lesson, but it was here at our apartment. I fixed white chicken chili, which was perfect on a gray and chilly day. We had Ethan's favorite bakery find of walnut bread and then chopped fruit for dessert with whipped cream. The five of us (the three ladies from the temple and our teacher, who is also a temple worker) sat around the table here enjoying lunch together (the second great social eating experience of the day) and conversing in Danish (I use the term conversing somewhat loosely). Afterwards we spent an hour and a half going over the lesson....which is quite intense. I have already felt like we have learned more in these past three weeks than all the months I sat in the other Danish lessons.
In the evening, the Brookes, the Thornes, the Middlemases, Sister Hamblin and SK and I went to a little cafe on the other side of the Nu Teater, which is a half a block away. It had all sorts of American fare (Lia, I know you think that is blasphemous...eating American in Denmark) but I must tell you, every single one of us was very happy with our dinner...and that is unusual. AND it was a great social experience (#3).
We finished the day by watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert from 2012 with guest soloist Alfie Bo, and then Tom Brokaw telling the story of the candy bomber from WWII. So inspiring!
White chicken chili does sound nice for a gray and chilly day, but I don't think it will attain perfection until a white and chilly day!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like really marvelous day. What did you order at the American restaurant? Was it authentic?
You are always so funny! Mette, our teacher asked what it was and when I told her, she asked what other colors of chicken we have.
DeleteOK, I am embarrassed to tell you that at the American restaurant we ordered fish and chips and wienerschnitzel. But Elder Thorne had a hamburger which he said was excellent (a Mexican hamburger). And I also had onion rings which were very good.
I'm interested in your Danish lessons now and how they're different than the class you took? That's a great thing! Yes, what did you order for dinner and was authentic like Lia asked?
ReplyDeleteWell....there are only four of us who are learning and we sit around the table, and try to speak only Danish....she is able to answer every question and address every issue and she is insistent that we pronounce correctly and that we know the meaning. The other class catered to the very slowest of us and was not demanding. There was a lot of time wasted just talking about things of little value....and doing things that didn't really help me in the situations I am in with Danes.
ReplyDeleteI think everything in the restaurant was about as authentic as Cafe Rio's authentic Mexican food.