L'Arche Log- Day 1

After leaving Gannon promptly, we headed off to Canada. In the car it was decided that Taylor Swift's 1989 was the soundtrack to start our trip. We made sure to listen to Welcome to New York after we entered New York. To foster a sense of community, we played a celebrity name game for an impressively extended period of time. Jeb got frustrated because Anna kept making him name celebrities that started with "h" and "g". We made it across the border without a hitch! Since we had extra time we decided to stop at Tim Hortons for a snack. It was nice for us to continue to chat and get to know each other better. We arrived at the Sherman house and they immediately welcomed us. We talked and introduced ourselves while we waited for our Chinese food to arrive. One of our favorite moments was reading our fortune cookies at the end of dinner. One of the fortunes alluded to the idea of a smile breaking all language barriers. As some of the core members of the L'Arche home are unable to speak we all connected with this statement. After dinner we gathered in the living room and continued to chat. We discussed all different topics from sports to politics to computer games. Shortly thereafter, some of the core members started going to bed. However, two members Richard and Alice, stayed to hang out with us. We started tossing a ball back and forth and Alice became engaged in playing with us soon after. After a quick tour of the kitchen and briefing of the morning routine we headed to bed. As a group, the seven of us reflected on our day by sharing our high, low, and moment we felt closest to God. We are looking forward to our day tomorrow,  as the seven of us will be dividing up and visiting four L'Arche homes before returning to one community in the evening. To end with a Jean Vanier quote, "so to become fully human is the development of the heart and the head, and then we can become one."