Happy Birthday

Sunday was my birthday. So I had fun opening the presents I brought with me from England- Oh lots of socks! I love socks! New socks, nothing feels better! I felt incredibly blessed by the people around me, as my friends all gave me birthday hugs and cards, and when I walked into the canteen for breakfast everyone broke into song. Sunday was also our first time at the main TACF meeting. It was a cool service, there was a visiting speaker from Peru, who was really cool. Talking for Ezekiel about how if Ezekiel can talk and prophesy life into bones, and how we can prophesy order, life and purpose over areas of our life that are ‘dry’ and without God’s life and purpose. The service was one of the longest church service I have ever been to starting at 10:30 and finishing after 1. However I didn’t even notice the time, let alone get bored, which is a measure of how much I enjoyed it.
After the service, I had to wait for Jonathan to come back from one of the other congregations before going to lunch. So I wandered around and admired the icicles and the snow.
(picture of the icicles put up especially by request of Charl)
Oh and I got given my present from Emma and Fanny.


Unfortunately it was too small so I couldn’t wear it all day :(

When Jonathan finally appeared, we wandered in the snow down the road to Montanas. There were four of us; Me, Jonathan, Ben (Jonathan’s best friend here) and Jo (a lovely Irish girl who was at the school before is back for this week’s teaching, and who Jonathan is rather fond of). It was a hoot! I get on with Ben very well and Jo is lovely, though she did go and tell the staff it was my birthday, so I had to wear a moose hat as the staff all sang to me. Ben has a picture, which I will try to remember to put up at some point. It will definitely go on facebook when I have it. On the way back we managed most of the way along the pavement, but suddenly the pavement disappeared under snow again. The others all started climbing down the snow bank onto the road to carry on walking. I, on the other hand, thought to myself “It’s not far to the next junction, I will walk along the road after that”. So I quickly discovered just how deep the snow covering the pavements was as I promptly sank up past me knee! After some mad scrambling and a bit of help from Ben, I managed to get on to the road again, now doubled up with laughter and a serious stitch forming. It was a great little outing.
When I got back I had about half an hour before it was dinner time! Lol lots of food. The evening was another quiet one, finishing off my journal assignment. I did get rather home sick though as I lay on my own. So I went and stole my laptop back off Sophie and had a good old chat to Charl which made me feel much better :-D I can’t actually remember what I was doing after that, but I think I just chatted to my room mates for a bit and then went to bed. Oh no I know what I did, I had a shower and then wrote Saturday’s blog entry!