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It looks like Artemis II has broken Apollo 13’s record of furthest a person has gone from Earth.
Oh yeah I got annoyed by this member only wholesaler charging $50 for a yearly membership. It’s too far away.
Hello everyone. I got an email from the War Museum in Athens for an interview before the practice.
Nice morning in Sarajevo, sunny day, not very hot yet… about 12° at 9am.
Today I’m going to have an easy day, revisit a couple of sights and a new photography exhibition… tomorrow I’m heading out to Srebrenica for a day tour there.
Attended Easter service at a Korean church in Switzerland (I’m of Korean descent and my in-laws are visiting).
During announcements they announced that lunch was provided by a local Lebanese man (with no connections to the church) because he has family in Lebanon that live in a region that is constantly being bombed and he feels helpless. So he’s asking the church members to pray for his family’s safety, and as a token of appreciation he wants to offer what little he can.
Don’t know why, but that shit made me start crying.
Watching an episode of The Wire I noticed an interesting building in the background. The scene was two guys sitting at a park bench, behind them you could see some of the park and then in the distance behind the trees there were the unmistakable onion domes of an Orthodox Christian church. I realised I’ve never seen Orthodox church architecture in the US. Not irl when I’ve been there, not in the probably thousands of hours of different footage across all kinds of media I’ve seen of the US. So, this building intrigued me.
Turns out it was not an Orthodox church, but the St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church. So I guess I still haven’t seen an Orthodox church in the US. I thought it was weird that a Catholic church looks like an Orthodox church. Also, the building didn’t look all that great in the closeup pictures, no offence if you’re an Ukranian Catholic Church goer in Baltimore reading this.
So I then looked at different Catholic churches in Orthodox countries. Russia, Ukraine, Greece, etc, and many of them also had Orthodox architecture. So I guess it’s a thing. A lot of them also had Catholic architecture, go figure.
I also learnt that the name of the biggest cathedral in Moscow is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. That’s such a funny name, lmao.
Completely unrelated to this, but I was also looking at what’s going on in St. John’s in Newfoundland. You know, just to get a grasp of what the place is like. Europeans first started hanging around there in 1497. That’s so early. It’s really weird to see a date that long ago in something to do with Europeans in modern day Canada or USA.
I got into an argument last night that affected me more than it should have. Someone who is new to my friend group asked me “well, why can’t you go back to your home country?”, and that really bothered me, so I started a big fight.
Tomorrow I’ll do my weekly shopping, and on Thursday I’m going to go out for lunch with one of my closest friends from the US. That’ll be nice.
I have been watching all the Artemis II footage. The astronauts were answering questions (mainly from kids). One of them was how to do CPR in space. It’s a really good question, actually. Seems like you find a good corner where you can push your colleague against one wall and yourself against another, and go ham.
Do you guys know how to do CPR? It’s very important!
People still seem to be on vacation, at least some. It is hard to get stuff done 😕 Oh well. Let’s have another coffee.