San Diego

(read LA Xtended first)

So we boarded a greyhound to San Diego and met a guy from derby. one of those people who how ever many hints you give that you want to stop talking he doesn't take them. evenutally i went to sleep. i think ho got that hint. i hate being rude and he was interesting (had doen a simlilar trip to my sister laura). he came with us to our hostel as he didnt have a place to stay and we got put in differant rooms.

our hostel was in such a nice area called the Gas Lamp district. the architecture was amazing, most dating from 1890

hang on there is a cazy lady shouting at me in the library...apparently she does'nt like being called a duck-skinned bitch. oh she's been carried out now.

ok

so the gas lamp district was built when the north south railroad was completed and it is really gentrified....more nice clubs and bars than in any area i have been to with a great blues scene.

anyway, i couldn't sleep in the hostel last night, it was so so hot and full of irish people having 'a fecking party' which entailed shouting 'who's your best friend? Tequilla!' every 5 min.

i walked to the only place could see that looked decent and wasn't ID checked (it had live music etc)

I got in and this guy starts talking to me...about 24 in age. He informed me i had arrived at a chistian meeting and it was the will of god that bought me here. i didn't think it was appropriate to mention it was acutally the flipping irish. Once i realised where i was it was then i noticed the words to the song...'jesus is love'. He informed me that he'd done Bible studies at uni and he had 'painted' the 'picture' behind the stagem, which was apparently Jesus on the cross, not ironed out road kill as i had assumed.

we had a chat for what must have been 45m in and covered lots, from religion, divine purpose and scientific knoledge and differed in a few areas....mostly around creationism. i said i didn't belive the world was flat even though i'd never seen it from space and that science was a tool for understanding our universe in a more profound way. nope, it was made in six days he insisted. it was nota metaphor.

he asked if he could pray for me, i was bashful and said i couldn't really stop him. he went ahead and placed his hand on my shoulder and asked god a few questions, and told him to help anser my questions...it was kinda nice i guess.

he ended by saying 'christianity is a simple religion, you don't have to think about it'

californians and christianity, a dangerous mix.