Easter Fun
Easter, for most people a family time, but for the last three years I've spent Easter away from home ... with families of a different kind.
Two years ago I was in Hong Kong, then last year I stayed in Brum and had all the other students who were sticking around over for a home cooked roast followed by a massive game of Cornwall Challenge, then off for japes in Edinburgh. This year though was particularly fun.
The day started with the 'resurrection fry-up' over at Tim's, at the other side of town. First adventure was finding the house. My directional abilities are poor to say the least, but when I combined this with forgetting the directions I'd written out for myself it was fairly likely something was going to go wrong. I didn't expect to find myself and my bike leaving Cambridge on the A14 however ... an experience I don't aim to repeat!!!
An hour after I set out on the 20 minute ride, I finally made it, just about in one piece. It was worth the adventure though, a great morning of hanging out in the garden, in glorious weather, eating brunch with a great group of people. Celebrating the fact that Jesus didn't stay in the tomb. That he conquered death *woohoo* Now that's worth celebrating.
The afternoon got better from there with some real proper japes going down at the 'Easter party' 4 hours of organised eggy fun!
We started gently with a chocolate egg hunt in the garden. Next stop an egg and spoon race down the road ... dodging any cars that came along. Fun, but there was more to come.
The next activity has to be the highlight of the day for me. Eggstreme Egg rolling. Traditionally done down a grassy slope. In the absence of any grassy slopes in the nearby vicinity we updated the game, and took our hard boiled eggs down the road to the bridge. The really busy, with lots of cars, bridge. Whoever got any part of their egg the furthest down the hill was to be the winner. The result, eggsploding eggs being driven over, and lots of very odd looks in our direction. My egg was eggsploded dramatically but the winner made it down in one piece. Even managing to peel itself on the way! It sounds mad, but was the most fun I've had in ages.
The fun didn't end there though, we made parachutes out of paper and dropped eggs out first floor windows, and painted eggs and got random people in the street to judge them. I'm sure I'm regressing age wise. Any moment now and my students will be older than me!
I also got to pick up some bargains in Camden and see Jess and Cherie on the Friday. So a pretty good weekend really.
On the downside though I missed the other Hong Kong people due to my recent horrendous organisational skills and I still have an 8,000 word assignment to write this week. Still I'm allowed to watch 24 again now lent is over and that should see me through the woeful essay, Rach is coming back really soon and I'll see people in Hong Kong in the summer.
My dip is over. I'm going into next term in a much more positive mode. I'll get through this year, get a job somewhere. God's in control, I'm not. I'm getting used to that fact and enjoying the ride right now.
Two years ago I was in Hong Kong, then last year I stayed in Brum and had all the other students who were sticking around over for a home cooked roast followed by a massive game of Cornwall Challenge, then off for japes in Edinburgh. This year though was particularly fun.
The day started with the 'resurrection fry-up' over at Tim's, at the other side of town. First adventure was finding the house. My directional abilities are poor to say the least, but when I combined this with forgetting the directions I'd written out for myself it was fairly likely something was going to go wrong. I didn't expect to find myself and my bike leaving Cambridge on the A14 however ... an experience I don't aim to repeat!!!
An hour after I set out on the 20 minute ride, I finally made it, just about in one piece. It was worth the adventure though, a great morning of hanging out in the garden, in glorious weather, eating brunch with a great group of people. Celebrating the fact that Jesus didn't stay in the tomb. That he conquered death *woohoo* Now that's worth celebrating.
The afternoon got better from there with some real proper japes going down at the 'Easter party' 4 hours of organised eggy fun!
We started gently with a chocolate egg hunt in the garden. Next stop an egg and spoon race down the road ... dodging any cars that came along. Fun, but there was more to come.
The next activity has to be the highlight of the day for me. Eggstreme Egg rolling. Traditionally done down a grassy slope. In the absence of any grassy slopes in the nearby vicinity we updated the game, and took our hard boiled eggs down the road to the bridge. The really busy, with lots of cars, bridge. Whoever got any part of their egg the furthest down the hill was to be the winner. The result, eggsploding eggs being driven over, and lots of very odd looks in our direction. My egg was eggsploded dramatically but the winner made it down in one piece. Even managing to peel itself on the way! It sounds mad, but was the most fun I've had in ages.
The fun didn't end there though, we made parachutes out of paper and dropped eggs out first floor windows, and painted eggs and got random people in the street to judge them. I'm sure I'm regressing age wise. Any moment now and my students will be older than me!
I also got to pick up some bargains in Camden and see Jess and Cherie on the Friday. So a pretty good weekend really.
On the downside though I missed the other Hong Kong people due to my recent horrendous organisational skills and I still have an 8,000 word assignment to write this week. Still I'm allowed to watch 24 again now lent is over and that should see me through the woeful essay, Rach is coming back really soon and I'll see people in Hong Kong in the summer.
My dip is over. I'm going into next term in a much more positive mode. I'll get through this year, get a job somewhere. God's in control, I'm not. I'm getting used to that fact and enjoying the ride right now.
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see you soon jeeeeeeeeemmmmmaaaa????
blessings from us!