1-2-08
We woke up in the beautiful park, but it was freezing! I could barley put my sleeping bag away. We walked a mile back into town and found a subway to get some breakfast (coffee and a cookie). Then we headed back to London and still had some time before we met lacy at the British museum. We headed for a little place called Camedon. It was crazy! It is known for all the punk/emo styles there and if defiantly upheld its reputation.
After the museum we decided to go back to the clink hostel, even though we were not really planning on staying there that night, to cook some pizza. We found out they did not have an oven, so we managed to make it on the stove. Quite fun.
This is where the real story begins.
We wanted to sleep in the hostel that night, because of the poor sleep we got outside. I went to reserve the room, but it was ridiculously expensive, because it was the weekend and the only room available was the single room. We said we would just go find the people sleeping outside for peace right by Big Ben. That would be fun! On the underground ride there with all of our things I read in the paper that is was supposed to be below freezing with some freezing rain. Not fun, but we kept on, because the Lord has not failed us yet : ) little did we know what was in store for us.
We got off at the wrong station and just started walking somewhere, when we asked a girl where Big Ben was. She laughed and said, “You are going the wrong way”. We got on the bus and again got off somewhere random and started waling. We walked past this homeless looking man on the freezing night and about 30 feet past us he turned and yelled, “Free food!” We did not think he was talking to us, but apparently we looked homeless and hungry. He yelled again, “free food”, so we turned and caught up to him. We walked to a group of people. It was some missionaries giving out food to the homeless and creating relationships with them! So cool. Caleb continues to talk to the homeless, while I talked to the missionaries (Wayne). They were a group called CORE (City Out Reach and Empowerment) the people from Christian Revival Church had to leave, but Wayne nonchalantly slipped a piece of paper to me and said call me in 30 minutes.
Long story short we ended up meeting him at midnight at Big Ben and he took us to his friend’s house. They were also from this church and made us feel so welcome. Over the next 3 days they planned events for us, gave us food, shelter for 3 nights, washed our clothes, washed us, let us use the internet, try to call home, prayed for us, took us to a South African barbeque, took us to church, and became good friends with us! It was so great.
The Lord is totally faithful and will protect his children. I have found that if I just listen to his direction, have a little faith, and obey he gives us the most adventurous life!
It is good to have a stable life, but what do you find your stability in?
28 February 2008
27 February 2008
In the Beginning to London
I was blessed to have some of my friends see me off in the Tulsa airport on 27-1-08. That means a lot and is fun to see them one last time, for now. Then I realized that I had forgotten my camera charger right when i was supposed to go through security, so my heroic dad raced back home to get it while I went through security.
He made it back and I was off...for a couple feet, because my plane to Dallas was delayed for an hour. It finally came and got there in time to run through the airport and when I got to my terminal they said, "are you Daniel Clutter?" and let me in at the last second. sigh. Lacy Clark and Caleb Kirby met in the airport, because Caleb was worried and lacy kind of recognized him from pictures, so they met : )
we made it to London and Lacy did an awesome job of getting us to her Dorm. It was very high security, so needless to say Caleb and I found the clink hostel near by.
(this was one of the best trips of my life already, just so you know)
The next day Caleb and I just did our typical style of travel; we just walked wherever. We like to observe the every day life and talk to people as we go along. we ended up going to the London bridge, the monument, the Tower of London, the Tower Bridge, some cool cathedrals, and a huge sun dial. we ate some carrots and peanut butter in the park for lunch. we were able to bring up the Lord on 2 occasions that day.
The next day we decided to go to Oxford and try to fit in with the really smart kids ; ) it was beautiful there, with a nice small town and scenery around. we found a massive meadow/park in which we would sleep that night. we went to a really famous, extravagent cathedral and attended the service. On the way back we talked and tried to judge that really traditional kind of church. The Body of Christ is supposed to strengthen and sharpen each other (prov. 27:17) and it is the churches role to judge those inside it and God will judge those outside the body (1 cor 5:12). http://www.crosswalk.com/
oh! and it was freezing cold that night and of course I did not have a jacket, but the Lord totally provided a sweet homeless looking(but coming into style) warm jacket in the trash!
Intermission... you are probably tired of reading, so ill tell you the rest of London in a bit.
I love you
He made it back and I was off...for a couple feet, because my plane to Dallas was delayed for an hour. It finally came and got there in time to run through the airport and when I got to my terminal they said, "are you Daniel Clutter?" and let me in at the last second. sigh. Lacy Clark and Caleb Kirby met in the airport, because Caleb was worried and lacy kind of recognized him from pictures, so they met : )
we made it to London and Lacy did an awesome job of getting us to her Dorm. It was very high security, so needless to say Caleb and I found the clink hostel near by.
(this was one of the best trips of my life already, just so you know)
The next day Caleb and I just did our typical style of travel; we just walked wherever. We like to observe the every day life and talk to people as we go along. we ended up going to the London bridge, the monument, the Tower of London, the Tower Bridge, some cool cathedrals, and a huge sun dial. we ate some carrots and peanut butter in the park for lunch. we were able to bring up the Lord on 2 occasions that day.
The next day we decided to go to Oxford and try to fit in with the really smart kids ; ) it was beautiful there, with a nice small town and scenery around. we found a massive meadow/park in which we would sleep that night. we went to a really famous, extravagent cathedral and attended the service. On the way back we talked and tried to judge that really traditional kind of church. The Body of Christ is supposed to strengthen and sharpen each other (prov. 27:17) and it is the churches role to judge those inside it and God will judge those outside the body (1 cor 5:12). http://www.crosswalk.com/
oh! and it was freezing cold that night and of course I did not have a jacket, but the Lord totally provided a sweet homeless looking(but coming into style) warm jacket in the trash!
Intermission... you are probably tired of reading, so ill tell you the rest of London in a bit.
I love you
18 February 2008
Wow my first post! I better make it a good one.
hmmm. I want to be pretty transparent with my thought on this thing, so maybe i will ramble a bit. ask Caleb i have gotten good at that. Do not feel like you have to read this if you do not want to, but you are invited to know some of my thoughts. Also creative writing, not my thing. talk to Jo Reese, James Firestone, or my brother if you want that.
I really enjoy pictures, as i have trouble paying attention sometimes. Also a picture is worth a 1000 words right? But I have been having fits with learning how you can see them easily without copy/past or downloading some program. so I half way figured it out. go here and hit slide show. http://picasaweb.google.com/zildjian777/LondonJan28Feb4 any advice is welcomed.
Im sitting here in my dorm with my roommate (who is not here too often, but i really enjoy him. he likes outside) who is reading a book, drinking my Lady Grey Tea from London, Enjoying some of Scott Goodners music selection, and pretty happy with the life the Lord had given me.
Another thing. I do not mean to be preachy, but most of the time I just love to express some things about the Lord and give Him the credit he is due. sometimes I do not like those bubbly kind of people who you can not really tell where their motivation lies when they speak of God, but then I stop and think wait,...where are my motivations? I am no better than anyone, because we are all sinners. When I turn my thought process what they say becomes an encouragement and not a discouragement. after all rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn.
Caleb Kirby and I have had a pretty crazy time getting here. We still are not fully here due to some residency permit difficulties, but it will just create a good story and a trip to Italy : ) I wish you could really see my smile right now, because chances are if you are reading this you have a special place in my heart and I miss you. If you want to see me my name is daniel.clutter on skype (keep in mind if it is 1 PM there it is 8 PM here)
so some general news and then I am off to bed. Caleb Kirby, Lacy Clark, and I met in the Dallas airport and went to London, where Lacy is studying this semester. Caleb and i spent a week there, but that is another story. we made it to Slovenia, had fun in orientation, met some other people from around the world, got our dorm. we found out all the other exchange students were already enrolled. hmmm probably should do that, but we did on the first day of classes and we are in Statistics for Business Descision Making, International Marketing, E(meaning internet)-Marketing, Globilization and International Trade, and Strategic Management.
Thanks for reading
chao
I really enjoy pictures, as i have trouble paying attention sometimes. Also a picture is worth a 1000 words right? But I have been having fits with learning how you can see them easily without copy/past or downloading some program. so I half way figured it out. go here and hit slide show. http://picasaweb.google.com/zildjian777/LondonJan28Feb4 any advice is welcomed.
Im sitting here in my dorm with my roommate (who is not here too often, but i really enjoy him. he likes outside) who is reading a book, drinking my Lady Grey Tea from London, Enjoying some of Scott Goodners music selection, and pretty happy with the life the Lord had given me.
Another thing. I do not mean to be preachy, but most of the time I just love to express some things about the Lord and give Him the credit he is due. sometimes I do not like those bubbly kind of people who you can not really tell where their motivation lies when they speak of God, but then I stop and think wait,...where are my motivations? I am no better than anyone, because we are all sinners. When I turn my thought process what they say becomes an encouragement and not a discouragement. after all rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn.
Caleb Kirby and I have had a pretty crazy time getting here. We still are not fully here due to some residency permit difficulties, but it will just create a good story and a trip to Italy : ) I wish you could really see my smile right now, because chances are if you are reading this you have a special place in my heart and I miss you. If you want to see me my name is daniel.clutter on skype (keep in mind if it is 1 PM there it is 8 PM here)
so some general news and then I am off to bed. Caleb Kirby, Lacy Clark, and I met in the Dallas airport and went to London, where Lacy is studying this semester. Caleb and i spent a week there, but that is another story. we made it to Slovenia, had fun in orientation, met some other people from around the world, got our dorm. we found out all the other exchange students were already enrolled. hmmm probably should do that, but we did on the first day of classes and we are in Statistics for Business Descision Making, International Marketing, E(meaning internet)-Marketing, Globilization and International Trade, and Strategic Management.
Thanks for reading
chao
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