Everything here is regimented.  Breakfast at 7:30, lunch at 11:30, supper at 5:30.  The waiters take your order from a prefixed menu that has two main choices that change every meal, and ten fixed.  You can also ask for something special and if they have what is needed to make it, they will.  I can’t complain about the food.

It’s the opportunity to meet people that is hard.  People find a seat at a table, and never give it up so that there is mingling.   I have now gotten to know eight people fairly well, none of which are like me.  There is a large diversity of people types.  You have to adjust.  And I am used to having a family in my church of people like me.

But I wake up every morning to my favorite meal of oatmeal, crisp bacon and toast.  And I don’t have to do anything to fix it.  I watch national geographic after that and marvel at the diversity of God’s world.  What a wonderful thing television is to bring the world to our living rooms.