Cruise Day 2: Catching up

August 30, 2009

Hey

Sorry for the abrupt close yesterday. I actually didn't even finish my sentence properly because I passed out =P. Like actually. I was on my bed writing and waiting for Agnes to come back from some show and I just fell asleep on my bed. I woke up halfway through the night and found the notebook beside me and I'm like Dang! Haha anyways it's morning now so I feel better.

So continuing, I walked into A & F and at first I told myself I absolutely wouldn't buy anything. But I did. I bought a polo for $13 =\ because my mother said it was cheap. And maybe it is cheap but I feel really weird about it because 1. I'm not supposed I'm not really supposed to be into A & F and 2. It goes against everything I've kind of learned for the past while. The chapter of crazy love where it talked about the poor made me think a lot about how much I had. So I kind of aimed for what another friend ( i don't know if i can mention her name =P ) is doing which is not buying clothes until Christmas. Which is pretty intense. Sometimes I guess I look at my wardrobe and feel like it's lacking but when I compare it to others who barely have any clothes, it's HUGE and that's the thing. I'm comparing myself usually with people who spend a lot. I should be comparing myself with God's standards.

And so I guess the polo has made me think a bit. About self control, shopping, how God wants me to spend the gifts he's blessed me with. That was the only thing I bought that day. Actually up to this point.

The cruise check-in was an adventure on it's own. I guess being in a car for so long was pretty uncomfortable. Oh and when we got to Kingston, I accidentally locked my sister's washroom that auto locks when you close the door. Haha we ended up fixing it and at the time I was so worried I had incurred my sister's wrath but I think it's okay now. We fixed it =) So no worries.

Back to check-in. There were a lot of people. And my belt set off the metal detector =P Probably the most exciting thing about that.

I should probably summarize the rest of yesterday before...well I wouldn't want to bore anyone to death. So basically the food's really intensely awesome and the servers like come and they take your plates and crack pepper and like...everything. it's so weird. I"m not very used to having other people do stuff for me. I usually do stuff myself. So I guess it's really foreign to me to have people serve me like unlimited amounts of food from a menu. I guess I don't have extremely high expectations. This morning we were eating breakfast and my aunt kind of got angry at the waiters because there wasn't a fork and plate for my uncle and it was weird because me or my family would never openly do that because we usually don't mind things like that. So i guess it's just weird to have people serving us in general.

In terms of my spiritual life..it's been...well I think it hasn't been at it's best. I'm thankful God's given me time to recharge before school and KNA starts. I just wish I had more time to spend with Him. Maybe reading the Bible. Well I should go now. h ave to go to Newport. Never been there. It looks historic and old though.
-Chris