I rubbed the crust out my eyes, brushed, flossed, smeared on my deodorant and started a 30min adventure to town. A group of 7 of us wandered down the road with church as our destination. As the speed of our watches caught up to us we picked up the pace. The clock ticked 11:00a.m. and the church bells rang out. Thankfully, church is as on time as our buses--late.
The group us unshowered, unshaven, English speaking, jean panted Americans met eyes with a church of angry looking, sad, extremely conservatively dressed Gaelic speakers. It felt as out of place as when I wore my Johnnies (Condom) shirt around Belfast. But why? Maybe they thought we we're British?
The church was still, silent, and serious. A cold eerie draft pushed us through the door as we moved in. All the parishioners were dressed in depressing dark clothes. We invaded the back pew and shuffled in as a bell rang notifying us mass begun. It being a holy day of obligation the place was a full house.
Over the rows and sea of people Joe noticed the front row of men in tuxes. Then he noticed the casket and pointed it out to all of us. All at once we stood up and attempted to leave mass, but Kevin sat his ground. Sitting at the end of the row he held all the power. We awkwardly stood up then Kevin denied us access and we sat down and sunk in our seats. (Kevin never really explained why he wouldn't budge).
So there we sat surrounded by a full house of depressed Gaelic speakers. I felt sorry for the people, but because of the language barrier never figured out who died or what the circumstances were... I'd been to enough funerals in the last year I really didn't want to go through another. It put me in a depressed mood...
Even though I wanted to leave I figured leaving halfway through would be even more disrespectful than sitting through it.
As I put my hands out for Communion the Eucharistic minister's eyes ate my soul. She looked at me like I was the most repulsive, disgusting, piece of scum to ever walk the earth. I cannot tell you how horrible I felt. I've never wanted to not take Communion like I did at that moment.
We looked up the mass time for Holy Days, so our mistake was innocent... but not unnoticed.
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Mom told me you think obama will win the election? cmon man, we'll pull it off, the gap in polls has shrunk, its close.
I called my FYS teacher out for intimidating mccain voters by saying that if obama were to lose the election there would be a new civil war. I was shocked and appalled by the statement. She then was saying that a vote for mccain is a vote supportting the new civil war.
Ridiculous, i guess i can't just have a fundamental political difference anymore.
Ryan Lais flosses his teeth?
first, Mark that's insane... your prof is a nutcase and should remember that the last civil war gave Obama the abilities to be where he is today and that McCain is a moderate who hardly offends anyone enough to cause civil war
Secondly, Jinette why the anonymous this time? Ha
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