First FHE in Britainia Ward

As the title says, yesterday was my first FHE while I've been here. I was about 10 minutes early (I timed the lights perfectly for once) and when I went into the gym, went straight for the strawberries. Love them berries. As I was snacking, the bishop (I'm assuming he was the bishop or is in the bishopric) gave me a cup of Sprite.
Two guys shortly come in and are quickly making their way towards all the food. One of them looked like he'd bulldoze me over so I moved out of the way for my own safety. After he got a bowl of potato salad, he started chatting with me. His name is Paul and had just moved back to London after doing some traveling of his own to the states and other places in Europe. He certainly has the gift of gab. It was actually pretty nice not having to talk and it was really fun listening to his stories. the other guy who came in with Paul was going for some crackers and Paul introduced him to me. His name is Edward and he's from Scotland. After that, Indeh (totally guessing on how to spell his name) originally from Cambodia introduced himself to our little group. A lady was having difficulties with opening the trashcan so I went to help her and then we started chatting with each other. Her name is Catherine and she is also from the states. She has a little sister attending BYU as well and I believe she said she was the same age as me.
We then moved on to go downstairs for the activity. Two ladies were setting up some chairs and I offered to help. Instead they wanted to chat with me since they haven't seen me before. One is Sarah and I feel really terrible for not remembering the other girl's name. I just remember she lived in France before she came over to London. We opened with The Spirit of God and had an opening prayer. We had a spiritual thought given by Jason (also from the states) about how even though we don't all see big miracles like seeing angels as Nephi, Alma the younger, or Joesph Smith had but the gospel is still a magical thing.

After we were done with the thought, we had a closing prayer and broke up into groups. I chatted with a girl named Meg who came over from Harvard to studying for a master's program/internship. I then chatted with George who is originally from Canada but he's moved around a lot. I then started to watch people play some ping pong while I talked with three people visiting from Scotland. Two were brother and sister and the third was a friend of theirs.
Eventually the ping pong match turned into a double and I joined in. After all of us had our "nearly-got-hit-in-the-face" moments, we all decided to play some foosball. But we used the ping pong ball. Bad idea. It kept flying everywhere and it got stuck when we got a goal. After tilting the table in all directions and getting the ping pong ball out, we moved back to ping pong.
Raul from Spain and I were a team and Jace a local and Indeh were another team. It was a hilarious match. At first we were playing a actual ping pong match but then it turned into how long we can keep the ball in play. We were hitting it off the ceiling, floor, walls using our paddles, feet, hands, and sometimes heads (that last one never worked for some reason).

I then had to leave at 9 since I had to take the tube back and then we all shook hands saying good game/nice meeting you and all went our separate ways.

Yup, pretty fun Monday :)