I'm taking a course on Sundays called Community of Hope. It's based on the Rule of St. Benedict, who was a monk in Italy in the 5th century. There was a huge amount of homework last week; I hope this week's assignment is shorter! Yesterday's lecture was fantastic. I sat and paid attention for three hours, with only one break. Usually I don't have such a good attention span, but the speaker was incredibly interesting. I hope the whole course will be like this.