Some of these are strange "firsts" for a divinity student...

A list of "firsts" for the 2006-2007 academic year
(give or take a couple months)

In 2006...

April:

• taking Communion with wine and bread (instead of juice and flour-based chiclets)
• attending a Quaker service
• attending an Episcopal Eucharist service

May:

• owning a Prayer Book
• meeting a priest
• hearing a woman preach
  
• learning a dead language (Biblical Hebrew)

June:

• having my own priest

August:

• being an acolyte
• Communion with wafers
• being a lector

November:

• helping serve communion
• Eucharist on my birthday (it was on Thanksgiving Day)
  

December:

• Advent
• going to Lessons and Carols
• attending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services
• being a "LEM"

In 2007...

January:

• attending an Epiphany service
• meeting a Bishop

March:

• Ash Wednesday service
• Lent
• Visiting Washington, DC -- for a peace march
• Confirmation class

April:

• Palm Sunday - complete with palm fronds and a little palm cross
• Holy Week services

[more to come]