Going To The Beach With Nuns

Wednesday I went to the beach. It was very nice. I went with six nuns and three laypeople. I am sometime surprised at how surprised I am when I realize that nuns are people too. Some people like going to the beach and that includes nuns.

In elementary school we never thought that our teachers had lives outside of school. They may have told us that they had families or hobbies, but we never really believed them. I guess that we all thought that after school all of our teachers get sucked into a limbo where they correct homework and grade tests until the beginning of school the next morning. That is until we saw them at the grocery store or any place other than school for that matter. Nuns are like that. Some nuns like to sing, play the guitar, tell jokes, go to the beach, play games or do any number of “normal” things just like “normal” people.

This being said, it is still kinda weird sometimes living in a convent.