What we do in life echoes in eternity

Day 4 (5-22-07) Today, monday was our first day of going to the University and talking to students, it is the start of the decoding proccess. We went to the Economics campus, which is only about a 7 minute walk from Residence Paradisio, which is the hostel where we are staying. The university is a little bit different here than it is back in the states, each major area of study has its own isolated campus, somewhere around the City. It is kind of odd but at the same time very cool! It makes for small communities so everyone gets to know eachother better. So we went to the campus with the intent of just getting to know some people and make some connections, so we split into our family groups and just walked around and got a feeling for the campus, and then attempted to interact and communicate with students. F0rtunately people know English, better than we know Italian so we are able to communicate farely well for the most part, but the students are very open to just sit and chat with us for a while and answer all of our questions about what school, and there life is like. It was cool to see that a lot of them enjoyed the same type of music as us, mainley rock. And for the most part they like doing the same things as us on the weekends. I think I have an extra connecting tool, with my interest in Futbol so I am able to connect with them on that level and talk to them which is rather nice to do. I found out that AC Siena has a game at home this weekend and the tickets are rather inexpensive so I think that Jack and I are going to check that out. So my small family, I think, was very effective about getting to know people and we got some email addresses so we will be able to contact them again and get another chance to talk to them. We are going to the medical campus tomorrow which I am more excited for because it is bigger, so we will have more people to talk to. It broke down a ton of barriers and fears, for lack of a better term, so that was great and I think better prepares us for tomorrow when we are with more students. As fun as today was thought, the evening was so much more enjoyable, it was another opportunity to hang out and fellowship with the team and just get to know them even more. Jack and I went out to dinner, which was a lot of fun, we had some man time and got a chance to just get to know more about his story, and to tell him more about mine. Then we met back up with the team and went on a prayer walk around the Piazza del Compo which is a big area where there are a bunch of resturants and people, especially students tend to congregate late in the evenings. So for the paryer walk we split into two groups and and walked around and prayed together, and then we came together as a big team and sat, and talked about the Shooting at UofI, and then we all just prayed about things that were on our heart, and things that we were struggling with. It was a great opportunity for us to grow even closer together as a group and learn more about eachother. We then just spent more time hanging out and talking. I am very excited about tomorrow though, we are going to the Medical Campus and I think that Jack and I are going to get to go together. Plus family B is cooking, so I don't have to pay for food, which is fantastic! And tomorrow is Man time! "Without Courage wisdom bears no fruit."