Thursday, March 26, 2009

What's been going on!

Lots of great things have been happening lately & here's the goss...

A while ago Dad & I went tramping on the West Coast. The track we did part of is called the Croesus, & it goes from just out of Blackball (near our bach) all the way through to Barrytown (just south of Punakaiki). We walked into the hut on the 1st day, about 6 hours worth, and slept VERY WELL that night! Then the next day we continued on a bit, then climbed Mount Lyall (it's massive!!!!) But we felt so good instead of just going back to the hut we continued all the way back that we'd tramped the day before. I was planning to attach some photos but for some weird technological reason, I'm unable to. So you'll just have to take my word for it - the views were AMAZING!!

The coolest thing that's happened in the past while is that I haven't had a migraine in over a month!! The new pastor at church, Terry, prayed for me 1 Sunday at church and ever since then!! Sweet as. It's been amazing, it's such a great feeling being free of pain - yay!! So now I can enjoy listening to LOUD! music whenever I want... all good!

Work is going really well. At first it looked like I wasn't going to have any the week before last, but I ended up picking up 3 days, so it always works out that I get enough - stoked! And the people I work with are really nice. We're very multi-cultural at the moment: an Irish nurse, an Australian Dr, an American Dr, a Sri Lankan-English Dr, an English Dr, and then the rest of us are kiwis. Plenty of fun when terminology is different, or even someone's accent! The American Dr asked a nurse for a 4x4 - and what he meant wasn't a piece of wood, or a car, but a piece of gauze, cos in the US they're 4" x 4". So yea, we laugh at each other's weird English.

The rest of my family is well. Dad's doing great, his work went through a quiet patch but it's picked up again now. He's getting into bike riding & has also been tramping on the hills so that's cool. He even managed to get his cholesterol down - so impressive! My brother's family is good - excitedly waiting to get a puppy. My other neice turns 11 this weekend, & I plan to go down to see them in Waimate over Easter.

Church is going really well. Our new pastor & his family are settling in just fine, & the church is in good heart. I'm leading a cell group and that's cool; it's been a while since I did that. I also do a bit of visiting for church and I'm enjoying that.

It's not long now til I go to France - sometime in August. My fundraising efforts kick off on the 23rd of April - I'm going to show a DVD set in Burkina Faso of all places! It'll be on the big screen at church and we'll put on supper, so that should be a lot of fun. I'm in the process of applying for my British passport (Dad's British), as my NZ one expires in November anyway. So I'll keep you posted on that - looks like a lot of paperwork to do!