Time Flies When You're Having Fun
Wow, it's been over a month since I last posted!!! After finishing off the outreach in Cambridge I headed off to stay with my Gran and catch up with my uni Church friends in Birmingham, so had no computer for yet another week!!! It was worth it though!!! Those whole four weeks were absolutly AWESOME!!! It's kind of hard to sum up such packed weeks afterwards so I guess I'll just post some photos .... but it was most definitly the BEST start in Cambridge I could have had, and I met a load of truly awesome people.
Here's the team, all or at least most of, the 41 of us:
Here's my small group:
One night's drama team:
In the park in the rain with one of my roomies:
During CIO I rather rashly decided to volunteer to lead the kitchen team of one of our cafes which led to rather mad evenings and having to make up about 21 pints of pancake batter on numerous occasions for pancake parties!!! I also ended up volunteering myself and a few others to sing in Cantonese on the international talent evening... it was fun in a funny kind of a way but I just hope there weren't any cantonese speakers there!!!
*Note to self I must stop volunteering myself for mad things*
Anyhow beyond that there was drama *yay*, volleyball in the park, punting and so much more ... not to mention the oppourtunity for everyonelse to laugh at me on my tiny bike... tied up trousers, pulled up pink socks, my host families waterproof coat and a loud scream - fun,fun,fun. I have however been converted to the cause of the bicycle and have just got my sister's old bike kitted out for when I go up on friday ... basket, lights the lot!!
When I got back home at the end of last week I had a pile of post and in amongst it all was a piece of paper laying out my whole year. It was kind of scary to look at especially considering by the end of this school year I could be leaving England... such a WEIRD thought. But also very exciting, I can't wait to get really stuck in. As for now though I'm just preparing for my new semester, doing my initial schools experience at my local primary, trying to pack and trying to find somewhere to live.
This summer has been amazing I have been challenged (and broken) in so many ways, God has answered prayer after prayer of mine, I got to see old friends in Hong Kong and Birmingham, had chance to make new friends from all over the world in Cambridge, been refreshed, had fun, found a church to go to in Cambridge and made some awesome Christian friends in Cambridge who will be staying ... can't wait to see them all again. Anyway I now feel so ready to start the next challenge... I'm ready for God to use me to impact the people I meet in Cambridge and I can't wait.
p.s sorry for the long post and thanks to Jos (aka Gos with the dutch sounding G) and Renato for the photos which I shamelessly nicked as I forgot my camera
Here's the team, all or at least most of, the 41 of us:
Here's my small group:
One night's drama team:
In the park in the rain with one of my roomies:
During CIO I rather rashly decided to volunteer to lead the kitchen team of one of our cafes which led to rather mad evenings and having to make up about 21 pints of pancake batter on numerous occasions for pancake parties!!! I also ended up volunteering myself and a few others to sing in Cantonese on the international talent evening... it was fun in a funny kind of a way but I just hope there weren't any cantonese speakers there!!!
*Note to self I must stop volunteering myself for mad things*
Anyhow beyond that there was drama *yay*, volleyball in the park, punting and so much more ... not to mention the oppourtunity for everyonelse to laugh at me on my tiny bike... tied up trousers, pulled up pink socks, my host families waterproof coat and a loud scream - fun,fun,fun. I have however been converted to the cause of the bicycle and have just got my sister's old bike kitted out for when I go up on friday ... basket, lights the lot!!
When I got back home at the end of last week I had a pile of post and in amongst it all was a piece of paper laying out my whole year. It was kind of scary to look at especially considering by the end of this school year I could be leaving England... such a WEIRD thought. But also very exciting, I can't wait to get really stuck in. As for now though I'm just preparing for my new semester, doing my initial schools experience at my local primary, trying to pack and trying to find somewhere to live.
This summer has been amazing I have been challenged (and broken) in so many ways, God has answered prayer after prayer of mine, I got to see old friends in Hong Kong and Birmingham, had chance to make new friends from all over the world in Cambridge, been refreshed, had fun, found a church to go to in Cambridge and made some awesome Christian friends in Cambridge who will be staying ... can't wait to see them all again. Anyway I now feel so ready to start the next challenge... I'm ready for God to use me to impact the people I meet in Cambridge and I can't wait.
p.s sorry for the long post and thanks to Jos (aka Gos with the dutch sounding G) and Renato for the photos which I shamelessly nicked as I forgot my camera
Comments
Hope Cambridge is still cool! I love PGCE don't you???!!
Love you loads, speak to you soon,
Eemma
xxxx