Janessa's Adventures Abroad: Better than Subway...

So on Friday we came home from school and just crashed. We watched What To Expect When You’re Expecting, ate popcorn and cookie dough, and then worked on writing our talks. I fell asleep pretty early because I was exhausted. It was a good thing though because we got up early to catch a bus to the city so we could take the ferry over to Devonport. It was so much fun! We were able to figure out the bus system and got where we needed to go. Then we took the ferry over to Devonport and it was a beautiful little ride. Then we walked around the city and went to all of the cute shops. It’s a very quaint, British-looking town. I love it! Then we got some lunch at a cute, little café and it was delicious! I got this mushroom and pesto pasta thing that was amazing! Yum J Then we took the ferry back to the city and walked around trying to find the flea market. When we got to the street it was supposed to be on, it wasn’t there… So instead, we went down and walked along the wharf. It is so beautiful! They were setting up for an ironman race triathlon thing so that was cool to see. We also found a really yummy ice cream place by the ferry dock that I will definitely be going back to! There was also a very smelly fish market which was gross. That’s the one gross thing about being here is that there are smelly fish every where. Every time we walk into the grocery store we have to walk past a bunch of smelly fish to get to the rest of the store. It’s our least favorite thing to do. Haha, anyways, we came home after that and finished up our talks. We finally got to meet the other girl that is living downstairs with us at the Joseph’s. Her name is Ra and she is awesome! She’s a preschool teacher and she likes to make really gross smoothies. Hahaha, she’s so great and she has an amazing singing voice! We really like her. It was really hard for me to enjoy last week and last weekend though because I was so nervous about my talk. Ugh, I really hate speaking in church. It just gives me so much anxiety! However, I did survive. I just read exactly what I wrote down and it was as long as it was supposed to be and I didn’t mess up my words too badly… I don’t mind being asked to play piano and sight read hymns (which I end up having to do in Relief Society every week) but talking in church is not something I will ever enjoy doing. After church we went over to Brittany and Elise’s house because it was Elise’s birthday. Their host mom made all these little finger foods for us to eat that were delicious! Then we ate cake and desserts and just sat around outside and talked. It was so fun. Then we went home and hung out with our family for a while. We talked to Jivarne about Jimmer and BYU basketball. And we made some cookies. For some reason they love the chocolate chip cookies we made for them a while ago so we keep making them. Hahaha, Jivarne said they are even better than Subway’s cookies!