Guests
The house has been getting a good clean lately, with quite a few visits. First on Saturday there was the usual Youth Group meeting. Then on Sunday we had invited three people for lunch after church. However at the last minute they had three guests from another part of Italy come with them to the service, so we invited them as well. Since there was also someone from New Zealand that had just arrived at Trento for a 3 month internship with the OECD here, we thought that we might as well invite her as well. At this point we needed a bit of a fish and loaves event to make the food last for everyone – and we came close to that. Pinuccia asked a couple of people if there is any shop open on a Sunday that would sell some meat. There are in Sicily, but she had forgotten that she is at Trento! However, the Saturday cell group had organised a BBQ on the May 1 holiday, which had been washed out. They had it instead on Saturday, but since others from the church would have gone on May 1 but couldn’t last Saturday, there was a lot of meat left over. Which they had just happened to bring with them to church on Sunday morning to see if they could give it to someone. So we took that, and with what Pinuccia had already cooked plus my pasta (adding some extra things to make the sauce last longer), not only did everyone eat too much, but on Monday we had leftovers to eat for lunch and dinner, and there is still some sauce in the fridge for another day. Although in any case it wasn’t the best weekend for the dishwashing machine to break down.
Then on Monday the person who was due to give the study at the cell group was sick and couldn’t, and since it was one of the studies that I had prepared for the others, and I had already led it for another group and will do it again tonight (Tuesday), I led it on Monday as well. This meant that the group meeting was moved to our house, as only in that way could Pinuccia attend as well. So now at least the lounge room is sparkling clean.