Praise the Lord Oklahoma-style

As you guys might remember I was going to a Christian church today for a 9am service just before my bus out of town. This was to experience some of the religion in the Bible Belt, and it was a lot livelier than I'd imagined - but just as naive. First of all, the church wasn't even a church. It was an abandoned room taken over by Christians. The benches were replaced with normal chairs and instead of a podium there was a stage with instruments and a microphone. This made me a little suspicious and rightfully so: for the first thirty minutes I had to endure the worst Christian pop-rock about how the savior came down to earth and how He was going to save us and bla bla bla. And get this: there was a screen above them so the Church-goers could sing along, karaoke-style. When I even saw that one of the dudes has a shirt that said "Satan is a liar!" and that the crowd actually did sing along, it was difficult for me not to roll my eyes and pray that this would be over soon (pun totally intended). Unfortunately we had to go through an hour-long sermon after that by a preacher who wanted us to shake hands a lot and explained the story of David and Goliath using many weird pop-cultural references. At 10:20am it was over (praise the lord!) leaving me to say goodbye to Penelope and Loren who'd taken me to the service, and get on the bus to Little Rock.

So now I'm here in Little Rock that seems to be a pretty cozy little town right off the bat. I took a short look at the high school that I'm going to tomorrow and it's huge. Like HUGE! But at least now I can find it...