I went to Bible Study in the afternoon. We are working through Beth Moore's _Jesus the One and Only_. After our study we had the opportunity to meet a couple of friends of our hostess. One of them, along with her husband (now deceased) was the first Campus Crusade for Christ missionary to Eastern Europe and Russia. She shared some fascinating stories.
Friday evening I met R at his workplace and we grabbed a quick bite to eat at LPQ ( Le Pain Quotidien) a yummy bakery and cafe whose name I can't pronounce. Then we took the metro to a friends' home where we enjoyed a game night with our friends from our Friday night Bible Study.
Both homes are in the US Embassy compound. When we enter as guests we leave our passport and get a visitor's badge, we check our electronics and get a claim check and we go through a metal detector and we require an escort. The houses remind me of row houses in a Northeastern city, with front stoops sort of like Sesame Street. There are American flags flying from some of the porches and a college flag or two. Although the furniture is the same government issue in each house, each home I've been in is unique to the family living there.
Before living in a foreign country I knew we had embassies all over the world but I had no idea how many people were employed by the embassies nor how many families lived abroad. A typical tour is two years, so these families move and make new homes often. I am thankful for these families and the sacrifices they make to maintain relationships with governments around the world.
Friday evening I met R at his workplace and we grabbed a quick bite to eat at LPQ ( Le Pain Quotidien) a yummy bakery and cafe whose name I can't pronounce. Then we took the metro to a friends' home where we enjoyed a game night with our friends from our Friday night Bible Study.
Both homes are in the US Embassy compound. When we enter as guests we leave our passport and get a visitor's badge, we check our electronics and get a claim check and we go through a metal detector and we require an escort. The houses remind me of row houses in a Northeastern city, with front stoops sort of like Sesame Street. There are American flags flying from some of the porches and a college flag or two. Although the furniture is the same government issue in each house, each home I've been in is unique to the family living there.
Before living in a foreign country I knew we had embassies all over the world but I had no idea how many people were employed by the embassies nor how many families lived abroad. A typical tour is two years, so these families move and make new homes often. I am thankful for these families and the sacrifices they make to maintain relationships with governments around the world.
