After Eights and Boris Johnson

Today I taught a lesson on Boris Johnson. The teachers like me to inject some modern-day British culture ... and although Boris isn't actually culture, it still fascinates me quite why Boris is so popular, or at least why he had such a majority. But the main funny thing I got them to watch was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT2fZJR9JC0 - I certainly found it more funny than they did, but anyway.

I was also given a box of After Eights today by Herr Michael. He's leaving, after 37 years at the school, and was given so much chocolate that he didn't want it all. And he gave it to me "weil du so niedlich bist" - because you're so cute. Hmmm.

Tonight I am excited because there is an event being put on at the TU called "Warum Glauben, wenn Wissenschaft doch Wissen schafft" (why believe if science really does lead to knowledge) ... a clever pun in the German there and also an exciting topic. The TU is the Technical University and so all the brains there will be tuned to that sort of topic. And indeed, most Germans study one of two things. Either they are male and they study Maschinenbau or they are female and they study something arty "auf Lehramt" - in order to be a teacher. And as Ellen said, they always do so in their Hausschuhen. Because that is the real role of Birkenstocks. To be worn with thick wooly socks.

But anyway, I am excited about the topic tonight and also about the potential to do more things in the coming weeks. I am especially motivated to get going working on the next Big SMD Thing which is the SAFT (Semester Anfangs Freizeit - beginning of semester houseparty) which I seem to have volunteered myself to help organise. I, along with a few others, and obviously the rest of the team - I have probably plaguerised the idea off one of them - feel very strongly the theme should be mission and what that looks like in everyday life. Because mission isn't something strange, it isn't something offputting, it isn't something fanatical. Mission is explaining the centre of your life. It's in fact something we all do completely naturally. And when the centre of your life is Jesus, what better news to tell?

Spannend!