This weekend is Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl has the greatest viewership any other annual program. The Patriots and the Falcons are playing. The Falcons are favored to win. Tom Brady is the quarterback for the Patriots.
The Super Bowl isn't just about football. Many people watch to see the commercials. It is very competitive to have your product aired during the game. The average cost for a 30 second commercial is $5 million. The commercials are spectacular.
Another draw is the halftime show. This year Lady Gaga is performing. You can be guaranteed that every Super Bowl halftime show will top the show the previous years.
Super Bowl is about the food. There are articles and special editions about the snacks for game day. People most often offer finger food and other snacks and dishes that don't require much clean-up. Do you want to know what the most searched for recipe by state is? Want to know the top foods? Just search Super Bowl Food. Top snacks are pizza, chili, sliders, pulled pork, spinach artichoke dip, brownies, cookies, nachos, chips and dip, popcorn, cake balls...and now we all want okonomiyaki.
Finally, there are the parties! People may meet at each other's homes, they may meet at a sports bar. Some people stay home and enjoy the evening with their family. No matter how you decide to enjoy Sunday, it will be a super one.
International Bible Study: Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30, Room 100
We met this week to celebrate Saori's birthday and Lupita's birthday. Too bad Saori was asleep! We had fun eating cake and trying to Skype. Saori had already fallen asleep. Time differences are such a struggle. Trying to meet and talk to our friends around the world take so much planning.
We read Acts 9:32-43. Read this story about Peter and his travels. How many miracles can you find? There are two obvious ones: Aeneas can walk and Dorcas was raised from the dead. There are two evident ones: Peter can perform these acts. These healings/raising from the dead happen immediately. at the request of the people. Many people believe in the Lord.
February 7: Join us as we continue to learn about the early life of the Christian church.
International Friends: Tuesdays, 10:30-12:00, Room 100
We met to talk about swearing or bad language. We compared our home language words and accents which cause us to be misunderstood. Sometimes our charming accents sound like swear words to English ears (Spanish speakers pronounce the English word beach with a short i . In this case, pronunciation is important. Sometimes words in our home languages sound like English swear words (dame-stop it right now! in Japanese or fuk-luck, happiness, blessing in Cantonese)
February 7: Join us as Sayuri teaches us to make a delicious Japanese dessert
Conversation: Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30, Upstairs Classrooms
We talked about car ownership. We talked about laws and practices of having multiple wives. We talked about the executive order regarding immigration. Wow! There are so many things to talk about in an hour and a half. We find that some or our ideas are difficult to express in our home language and in English.
February 8: Join us. We will talk about many topics. We will also talk about the Easy English News articles.
English Classes: Thursdays, 9:30-12:00, Upstairs Classrooms
We welcomed five new friends this Thursday. There was so many interesting class discussions to listen in on. Here is an excerpt from our American Accent class follow-up:
Groundhog Day and so we learned everything about groundhogs and how they predict the weather. We heard the news that Punxsutawney Phil (the groundhog) saw his shadow and so that means we will have 6 more weeks of winter weather. Take a look at this short video and see the official ceremony that happened early [Thursday]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
A groundhog is also called a woodchuck and so we practiced a famous American tongue twister about woodchucks. Watch this cute little girl teach you how to say the woodchuck tongue twister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
February 10: Join us for classes on Thursday.
International Church Services: The first Thursday of the month, 12:15-12:45, Hasse Chapel
We met this week in the choir room since there was a funeral in the Chapel. This week we sang two beautiful hymns: Jesus Loves Me This I Know (here is a Gospel version) and Amazing Grace. Both of these We followed a brief service that included confession and absolution. We listened to the message that God loves us, He forgives us, and He forgets our sins. We listened to the message that when we admit to our sins, God will always forgive us and that this applies to our past, current and future sins. We prayed the Lord's Prayer.
Remember that you are welcome to sit in even if you are not Christian or do not attend this church.
March 2: Join us for church services. We will sing Amazing Grace again and listen to
International Church Services: The first Thursday of the month, 12:15-12:45, Hasse Chapel
We met this week in the choir room since there was a funeral in the Chapel. This week we sang two beautiful hymns: Jesus Loves Me This I Know (here is a Gospel version) and Amazing Grace. Both of these We followed a brief service that included confession and absolution. We listened to the message that God loves us, He forgives us, and He forgets our sins. We listened to the message that when we admit to our sins, God will always forgive us and that this applies to our past, current and future sins. We prayed the Lord's Prayer.
Remember that you are welcome to sit in even if you are not Christian or do not attend this church.
March 2: Join us for church services. We will sing Amazing Grace again and listen to
aired: shown on tv
$5 million: $5,000,000
performing: presenting an act to an audience
sports bar: a pub or tavern that serves food, alcohol and features tvs everywhere airing the games
game day: a day set aside for a sporting event. Saturday is the college football game day. Sunday and Monday are professional football days. Game Day can be any day of an important game for you.
finger food: food eaten with your fingers; no utensils needed
super: great
perform: carry out, do
acts: something that is done
obvious: clear or easily seen or understood
evident: clear or easily understood
Lord: in the Bible, when the word lord is capitalized it refers to God and is the translation of Adonai. When all the letters are all capitalized (LORD) it refers to the Hebrew name YHWY. These words/names are words for God.
to listen in on: to listen without necessarily participating
excerpt: quoted paragraphs from another writing
[Thursday]: when you see brackets around a word it means that an appropriate word has been substituted for the original text, In this case I substituted "Thursday" for "this morning."
funeral: ceremony honoring a dead person
hymns: songs or poems
remember: recall; bring to mind something that was told before
sins: offences against God and other people
sit in: attend and observe
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