I’ve
been at such a range of activities from toddlers and youth groups to a service
for adults with learning difficulties. I’ve felt very welcome as I’ve been
invited for meals, a messy church in Kenelworth with a family with 4 bubbly
kids and a Housegroup. Met so many lovely people involved in different things
in the church that I’ve had to concentrate on remembering names. It’s been a
busy week; I’ll not bore you with all the details, just some of them.
As
my host, Eileen, has been on holiday this week, she bravely entrusted to me the
job of looking after her big house and little cat. This started with me
probably waking up the whole of Warwick as I set off the house alarm. After that
slight panic I managed surprisingly alright and Eileen has returned to a house
still standing and Alfie who thankfully hasn’t run away.
This
morning I even did some acting, which I haven’t done for a while! An
organisation, who works in the area, called cross-teach are telling the
Easter Story in a fun way to the year 7s in a couple of schools for a
few days this week. The little groups have to be detectives and collect
evidence at the different ‘crime scenes’. I was the sad, distressed then happy
and excited Mary Magdalene and did my little act 8 times in a couple of hours
having not seen the script till this morning, but by the last one I had just
about enough practice to get it almost right.
I was very excited to hear my placement in Zambia is
finally coming together! Relief and preparation mode sets in! At the moment it
looks like I’ll be at Chitokoloki Hospital for 6 weeks and in Loloma for
another 6 weeks so sounds like another varied experience to be had. I have
started getting inoculations sorted for my travels, which involved getting lost
as I cycled to the nearest health centre.
I’ve also enjoyed a couple of days off! Despite the
freezing weather and occasional blizzards I have briefly explored the small
town of Warwick. I even had friends visit and so it was nice to see some
familiar faces and have people to play table tennis and pool with in the games
room at the back of Eileen’s garden!
