Just a Weee Bit Over Exhausted

This is what my friend Joanie says here when she has had a long day or is overwhelmed. Everything has weee bit n front of it. I could seriously eat her. Wish all of you could be here to talk to her.
Today is our day off- Hallelujah! Can't wait to be thinking free for a little while! We are all going into London to see everything and take in the big city. Most of them are all going on this bike tour thing for 3 hours but I am going to stay with my friend Annalise. She's originally from Portland but has been living in Greensboro this last year or two and she leaves to fly home tonight from the Gatwick airport. =( I am sad about this. She has been here two other times before so when I first got here and was thinking "What the flip am I doing?" She took me under her lil wing and we becme fast friends. Yay! So I am thankful for her and her smart butt comments, etc and they will be missed. I think that we will have a fun time hopping around London together though and she's been several times so that'll make it all the easier.
Life here is truly beautiful. Just like 3 days ago I got to a point where I felt so comfortable and good here that I do not want to EVER leave. It is truly amazing the way they challenge your mind, love each person so gradually where they are at, and develop this atomsphere that contains SO much love! My tutor's name is Marta and if I could take one person back with me it would be her cute face. She is from Hungary and is absolutely beautiful. We go on walks or sit and have tea in her flat at least once a week but sometimes maybe more. This time is to make sure I am staying on track with what I am studying and connecting it all with life back home and my actual spirit not just my mind. She is so perfect for my personality and the road I have already walked.
Little tid bits of life. We drink tea FIVE freaking times a day. At breakfast, at tea time at 11, at lunch, at high tea time at 5, and then again at dinner at 6. Life stops around here for tea time just like we stop (or pretend to kind of stop) for a meal. Its so funny to me and keeps me highly energized, relaxed, and FULL! I think it is so interesting to hear everyone here talk about Americans. The ways that they see us are probably very true but things that I didnt necessarily see until I have lived life this way- how we are so so so wasteful, live life so fast, our Christianity is very diluted, and how unrelational we can be. Very interesting indeed to take a step back and think about...
My allergies make me want to die here so please tell Joanie to send me some MEDS AND QUICK! =)
As far as where I am at spiritually it is hard to relay. I am learning so much intellectually and in my heart that I cant really explain it all even if I wrote for another 4 hours just because I still am not grasping it in enough of an understanding to get it myself. But I am growing. As Marta said yesterday: "Ok ok stop stop stop. Let's just start allll the way over. You need to spend time here learning about WHO God really is. Then you need to spend time learning how He really sees you and how that relationship is. This this this (when she gets passionate all the words get repeated several times) that you are thinking you believe. That is why you have doubts. Because this is not true." HA! So I am starting at the beginning and loving every second of it. Meal time conversations and the lectures are so intellectually stimulating it truly blows my mind. Ellis Potter came and gave the lecture last night from Australia- it was on spirituality. WOW. I will for sure think, argue and analyze completely differently forever after leaving here.
There are more really funny stories to tell but I have this fear of L'Abri people finding this blog and then me feeling bad. I emailed my mom some of them so ask her if you want to laugh. Otherwise you'll just have to wait until I get back and we'll sit over a coffee (though I'll probably be drinking tea always now) and I'll fill your brain with funny scenarios.

much much British love for you all.