Thursday, May 17, 2012

Calvinism

     Today Zorah and I are going to a small town in Italy to visit a town of Calvinists. It should be exciting to learn about a different religion. I don't know much about Calvinism, but I know its very strict. I also know it was founded by John Calvin. The town was about 30 mins out of Florence, the trip felt short, probably because I slept the whole time. I woke up about 5 mins out of town, my nerves started to kick in I was nervous/excited.
     We arrived to the town at 11:30AM. Things were busy, but not lively. No one seemed to cheery. Zorah and I were extremely hyper from the car trip, so we skipped about humming to our favorite song, Justin Bieber Boyfriend, of course. We were shunned, we learned, the hard way, no Calvinists are allowed to sing or dance. We were given weird looks and snickers fell upon everyone's faces.
     "Tough crowd" I whispered to Zorah. She flashed a smile these people wouldn't phase us. We headed to the house we would be staying in. It was a quaint homey looking place.  I was excited to stay here. On the inside it was lit-tin by candles, bibles everywhere. These people put the bible over every thing. Our neighbors were on the porch reading their bibles, and every one was named after a biblical figure. All of a sudden everyone started walking outside, the were walking down the road, Zorah and I joined in. We were headed to church.
     The WHOLE town was in the one church. Everyone was crammed in, the scuffling of feet slowly quieted down as the priest walked out. The service lasted for 2 hours! We got back to our house and got unpacked, by that time it was 3PM. We had lunch with some kids in the neighborhood there names were Rachel, John, Mark, David, Mary, and another Mary. They were all very kind, later, at 4 there was another 2 hour service.
     After the service, we headed down to the main part of the town. No one was there, it was only 6. On our way back home we saw families, on their porches, reading the bible. This is true dedication. By 9 everyone was in bed, Zorah was out like a light I stayed up in out house, baking, cooking, and putting my skills to the test.
    In the morning at 8AM we had our last church service, we were actually glad to leave. Everyone hated us.
     

1 comment:

  1. Because you are the only time traveler to visit the Calvinist, you have a highly original post!

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