Ohope it will be all right
We are packing tonight for our trip to Ohope. Our plane leaves at 10 so we are hoping to be away from here just before 8:30 as we have a van load of people to take with us to the airport.
Mum and Dad are on their way down to look after the mokopuna while we are away, which we are most grateful for. Monday, the day we come back is Otago anniversary day which some institutions celebrate and others don’t. Hannah has her Montessori school for example but Katarina has the day off and I’m still trying to work out what is happening with Janine and Zach!
I started today early at 6am which enabled me to get a head start on some reading for the week (and next!). Chris tends to work late into the night which I can’t manage! He got his first assignment for his block course in yesterday and I got my first assignment back – an A! which I’m very pleased about obviously.
We’ve been enjoying a lovely spell of fine weather. Warm, but the nights are starting to close in so we appreciated another load of firewood from the School of Ministry blokes (the male students or sons of students that is!). Only four trailorloads more to go, according to the expert locals!
We've been having some trouble with a tyre on the van; had that fixed today, finally and turns out a couple, not one, but several screws were responsible. I think they might have come from the windows we were fixing in Hay St; they were certainly pretty worn.
Otherwise, all is well, the children are pretty much happy and healthy although Katarina is having more fun fun raising for her camp when she really ought to be getting on with some homework! She is also chasing up sponsor's for the 40 hour famine. Thanks heaps for all those wonderful people who are encouraging her with sponsorship.
Wednesday is our community day and we share communion every week. Who would have thought there were so many different ways to celebrate the Lord's Supper. This week we used a sort of Maunday Thursday service which was very sad and poignant, held mostly in silence and finished by extinguising loads of candles, sort of a symbol of the way the light of the world went out when Jesus was cruficfied. Very moving.
Mum and Dad are on their way down to look after the mokopuna while we are away, which we are most grateful for. Monday, the day we come back is Otago anniversary day which some institutions celebrate and others don’t. Hannah has her Montessori school for example but Katarina has the day off and I’m still trying to work out what is happening with Janine and Zach!
I started today early at 6am which enabled me to get a head start on some reading for the week (and next!). Chris tends to work late into the night which I can’t manage! He got his first assignment for his block course in yesterday and I got my first assignment back – an A! which I’m very pleased about obviously.
We’ve been enjoying a lovely spell of fine weather. Warm, but the nights are starting to close in so we appreciated another load of firewood from the School of Ministry blokes (the male students or sons of students that is!). Only four trailorloads more to go, according to the expert locals!
We've been having some trouble with a tyre on the van; had that fixed today, finally and turns out a couple, not one, but several screws were responsible. I think they might have come from the windows we were fixing in Hay St; they were certainly pretty worn.
Otherwise, all is well, the children are pretty much happy and healthy although Katarina is having more fun fun raising for her camp when she really ought to be getting on with some homework! She is also chasing up sponsor's for the 40 hour famine. Thanks heaps for all those wonderful people who are encouraging her with sponsorship.
Wednesday is our community day and we share communion every week. Who would have thought there were so many different ways to celebrate the Lord's Supper. This week we used a sort of Maunday Thursday service which was very sad and poignant, held mostly in silence and finished by extinguising loads of candles, sort of a symbol of the way the light of the world went out when Jesus was cruficfied. Very moving.
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