This weekend I was busy busy busy cleaning my room. I spent 4+ hours on Saturday cleaning my carpet. First I used the normal vacuum and then the special heavy duty carpet vacuum we borrowed from Brother Ralph. Since there was so much soot stuck in my carpet it took ages to clean and even after 4+ hours spent vacuuming my small room the water was still black! It was hard to tell if it was working sometimes but the end result confirmed that it was working! My carpet does look a lot nicer although I know it could still use some work. Today was spent washing my walls since there was still a lot of soot on them. Again that took ages but it is really nice now that it is done! It feels really nice to finally have everything cleaned from the soot disaster! I rearranged my room when I put all the furniture back but I’m not sure it will stay in this arrangement or not. I’ve wanted to rearrange my room for awhile but it may take another rearrangement or two to get the best configuration.

Below are picture of before and after pictures as well as a picture of the water from the vacuum (sorry the "after" picture turned on its own and I can't figure out how to rotate it in blogger). As you can tell from the after picture it isn't totally clean but it is a lot better. I think I might vacuum again with the carpet/steam cleaner next weekend to get it even better.



The weather this weekend has been pretty crummy-rainy all weekend! However most of the country is experiencing a drought so I know it is definitely needed!

Saturday was a leaving mass and celebration for the priest at the Chaplaincy where we go to church whenever possible. It was a nice mass followed by lots of yummy food! Sunday was the leavers’ mass for the Chaplaincy and we were considered leavers’ even though we are not students. All the leavers’ were given the book “How to Survive the Rest of Your Life” which sounds useful and it was written by a priest in the Hexham and Newcastle diocese which is cool. The mass was followed by a BBQ and as they say “all you have to do is plan a BBQ in England and you are guaranteed rain”! Despite the rain it was still a nice BBQ and a nice way to wind down the weekend. The Chaplaincy has been a very nice place to go since the population there is about our age, we could relate to the messages in the homilies so much more than at St. Anthony’s and everyone is super friendly! Luckily there will still be Sunday morning mass at the Chaplaincy until the Sunday after we leave! We were worried for a moment that it was the last mass but it wasn’t!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!