I knew it would happen eventually. A week would pass where nothing interesting happened. This week was the first of those. Normal office work, a few site visits to the O2, and church on Sunday. This week we went to Chalk Farm and everyone there wanted to know if we knew Kevin Larsson and Duncan Sutton. Eventually the CSM was telling people he had already asked and yes, we know them. Apparently they went to Chalk Farm when they were at university. Well, that’s what everyone at the corps wanted us to know. Chalk Farm has some serious history. One of the corps officers showed us the band room where they have a collection of old photos, books, and various memorabilia from the glory days of the corps. One of the most impressive items to me was a framed Order of the Founder certificate that was signed by General Evangeline Booth. Pretty cool. I’m really regretting not taking any photos now… we’ll just have to go back.

On Friday (I know this isn’t chronological) we went to the South London Divisional Youth Chorus rehearsal, which will have a new name soon. It’s led by Nick Hampton (and Alan or Allen whom we just met) whom we met at the Regent Hall Corps and was a good way for us to meet more locals and start promoting Boundless to youths in the UKI Territory. We aren’t as involved locally as some of the others but we have been able to get to know several people from what we have done. That wasn’t a well-composed sentence but I’m not changing it.

The last thing I have to say is about nicknames. Somehow we have attained the nicknames “Barbie” and “Ken”… it’s mostly John Murray’s fault. John works in the Communications Department at IHQ so we’ve seen him around a lot. He’s also one of very few Americans (Canadian, that is) in the building. Jeremiah attained the nickname “Congressman” from how he dressed for a video we did a couple weeks ago. It suits because he works in the Congress office. Lols.

-Mejee