Where has all the time gone?

I had great plans a week ago about what I would prepare for this blog, but somehow another week has just shot past. Hopefully next week ...

I have been having a great time teaching. My beginners class keeps growing and growing, and so for the rest of this week I'm going to put on some catch-up classes for the newcomers. Demand for the post-graduate class on the other hand seems to be a bit patchy, which is just as well as the little free time I have had would otherwise have been filled with preparation!

At the weekend, though, I had the chance to get out to Humpata, where Steve Collins is living, and we went for a hike - up quite a few rocks and behind a waterfall and things. I just fell in love with that area. Much nicer than being in the city.

Then yesterday I visited the school for the blind, which is actually much more a special school ... and not quite like The Avenue in Reading. Conditions seemed dark, dingy and cramped, with walls looking dilapidated - probably not helped, I admit, by the rain. Even the office was just a big metal box in the middle of the dirt courtyard. The secretary tried to persuade me to stay and teach there, and in a way I'd like to ...

The medics are in Kalukembe this week and to be honest it's really nice to have a quiet house with just Tom and I; 6 people in the flat is pretty manic - Tim's sleeping in the stairwell. Brendan and Craig, two Canadians, arrived on Saturday; please pray for them whilst they're here - neither are believers; one of them had never been into a church before. Tom's been happily making apple tart, our electricity is fixed although still intermittent and even the hot water geyser may soon be fixed!

What time I have had has been spent thinking quite a lot about what I am being called to do long term. Am I really cut out to be a missionary, that kind of thing. And if I am, where does SIM fit in, and Hope for Africa? I have a lot to pray about and I would value your prayers too.

Manz thanks for those who have been praying for Beth. I am pleased to say that she is now feeling a lot better.