Yeah... today was the day I decided to actually try going to church just to see what it was like. The first part (everyone in the big chapel room) was good, sunday school was okay (a little odd with the whole "splitting up into groups and going off to different rooms" thing, but not too bad), but the last part where the guys and girls got separated and sent off on their own was a little uncomfortable. Seemed like more of a "members only" sort of thing to me, and I felt weird and not quite like I belonged there pretty much the whole time (on top of the uncomfortableness I already had from the whole "crammed into a room full of other people" thing and of course the "no girls" thing.) But overall it went well; actually stuck around and talked to a couple of people I've met before (and a few I hadn't, and a few I've met once or twice but don't know as well) for a while while they waited to talk to the bishop.
Funny thing: I had been planning on doing my painting homework between church and supper, but as it turned out... there wasn't anything between church and supper. I ended up talking to some people in the church for a while and then right when I was headed off to eat, I bumped into Kaitlyn (whose name I actually know how to spell now--I had been guessing it was Kaitlin with two I's, rather than an I and a Y) and talked to her for a while... and by the time we finally stopped talking, I only had about 10 minutes to get in there and eat a salad before they closed the dining hall. Whoops!
Oh, and I actually managed to ask a girl for her phone number for the first time in my life. Not the first time girls have given me their phone numbers (though, all of those were also within the last couple weeks), but still the first time I ever actually asked for it... and at first she said no! But it turned out that was only a joke (kinda scared me for a second there, I just sort of stood there not saying anything and probably looked pretty freaked out for a moment) and we exhanged numbers shortly afterward. I was actually kinda surprised that I was even able to ask, since I'm not really very good at asking people things like that... maybe not quite the same as asking a girl out on a date or something, but it's a start I guess?
And speaking of that, I think I finally have an idea of who I would ask out on a date if I ever managed to actually attempt it. Not going to say who here since, well, people I know might be reading this (okay, they're not... I've had exactly 5 hits on this whole blog since I started, and half of them are from Germany. But I'm still a little paranoid about that kind of thing.)
Went to the fireside tonight also. They had free cookies. Pretty interesting stuff this time, too; one of the Mormons' current twelve apostles (their top church leaders are structured just like Jesus and the twelve apostles, with other larger groups aside from them because the population's way too high now for just thirteen people to cover it all) was the speaker, along with his wife. He actually talked about how you shouldn't go around nitpicking at other people's beliefs and how a lot of religions have stuff in common that should be focused on more than the little differences, which is a pleasant change from the "you disagree on one tiny issue? YER GOIN' TO HELL!!" type of religious people that I was used to dealing with before I came here. Basically he talked about tolerance and how you should generally be okay with other people's beliefs and such unless they're doing something horribly wrong (murder, stealing, etc.) as a result of it... which is basically the exact same thing Kaitlyn and I were talking about earlier in the day. Kind of a weird coincidence there, but definitely not a bad thing. It's nice to know that people actually agree with me on that kind of thing despite other religious differences. Makes me feel a little less out-of-place in the 95%-Mormon environment around here (though for the most part I haven't been feeling too out of place, since most people are actually nice... just occasional moments of out-of-place-ness here and there.)
Random silly quotes of the day: "Spraying butt-blood," "You don't want to lick a pirate," (both from the same conversation, oddly enough!) and "SOMEBODY PISSED ALL OVER THE SEAT!" (overheard at 11 AM from some guy who had just gone into the bathroom.)
And now... I need to get that painting homework done. Or at least started.
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