Linz in Focus

Well half term has officially started and it is raining What’s that all about???

It has been raining here since Sunday and it feels like home! But we have been told it is really unusual for it to rain two days in a row. Yet in Scotland if it does not rain two days in a row…… well that’s known as summer!!!

The kids maybe off for half term but unfortunately Johnny and I still have class. So the kids are in with us and they are doing well learning a lot about cross cultural living!

This week seems to be stretching out in front of us a bit because we are looking forward to going home for the weekend. Time is now moving at a snails pace, I really just want to kick that snail and shout hurry up!!!!

We are getting to know our group in enroute better now. We meet up regularly to have coffee and cake, prayer meetings and eat meals together in the dinning hall. It is a good group of folks we have. We may only know them for this short time but God has blessed us as a group and hopefully we will be able to keep in touch with some when we leave. We can’t believe that we are in week 6 of our 10 week course. After the course is finished we have about 5 weeks left until the kids finish school. We have asked the college if we can stay on as work volunteers (All Nations have conferences on through the summer) until the kids have finished the term.
 

Since coming to All Nations Lee has been getting involved with the volleyball. Every evening after tea the students play and he joins in. He has loved playing and improved every time he plays.well done Lee!!!

We are working hard as ever!!! 

Last week was a hard week as we were studying world religions it was interesting but hard going for 3 hours a day. This week is a lot more practical like how not to get burnt out or stressed and how to spot the signs. We have also been doing luvvv languages  which was very good and funny!!! Love languages is how you feel loved and how you express love to others. We are also doing a lot of other practical stuff which will be really good.

The kids and I are very excited because next weekend we will be up in Scotland for the weekend and we are looking forward to spending time with family and friends. Johnny will be visiting his sister in Canada. 

It was a good weekend. Normally weekends here are very quite and we just potter about but this weekend Johnny’s sister Aileen came to visit and she and Johnny took the kids swimming and me well OH JOY I found a hobbycraft. It was great they had to send in a rescue team in to get me out!!!

Then on Sunday Johnny’s other sister Maribeth, Jonathan, Luke and Ruth came to visit us. It was really good to have them here. The kids had a great time playing(croquet) as did the adults. It was a really good week end.

Oops well I had a bit of a red face last night. Lee asked me to make him some toast for his supper so I said yes he could if he finished his home work which he did and I put two bits of toast in the toaster and returned to what i was doing on the computer. Then the next thing we knew the fire alarm went off not just in our room but in the whole college!Pepole came running to see where the fire was and I met them sheepishly at the door saying how sorry I was but it was just the toast did not pop out of the toaster but they said they were just glad it was not a real fire.  But there were folks starting to  head outside. Oops sorry

Poor Johnny woke up yesterday morning with a sore eye. The doctor thinks it might be conjunctivitis.

Please pray it will get better soon and his eye won’t drop out!

We are also going to vist a church in Northampton! won’t he look pretty.

Photo taken by Rachel Fisher! 

Hello while there is a lot happening I feel like there is nothing to say, but I will probably find something to say and ramble on for a little while about nothing so here goes.

We have been going to classes and learning lots, but a couple of times I thought my head would explode with all the different opinions, contexualization, and post-modern and modern. I have struggled with trying to understand some of the deeper issues but enjoyed it at the same time. Johnny has loved being able to debate and argue his point and generally enjoyed the more theological classes. Johnny likes a good debate!

The kids are doing well. Rachel is settling in to going to school more. Lee is at the point in school where he has stopped being new and now it is time to fit in and I don’t think he knows where he fits. So please keep praying that he will find his path. Lee has also been doing a project on Sutton Hoo and is now putting together a powerpoint presentation for school! Please pray that is will continue to be a positive time for the kids as well as Johnny and I.

Last Friday we went to a read-through of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe-the whole book! The folks who were involved got dressed up in their character and to get into the room where it was you had to climb through a wardrobe with coats in it and halfway through the read-through we stopped and had Hot chocolate and Turkish Delight it was lovely mmmmmm 

Friday just gone Johnny went to a Bad Taste party where he had to dress really badly-I know a lot of you would say that he has really bad taste anyway and the answer would be yes he does-most folks had to go rumageing around and Johnny he just took them straight out of his wardrobe. It was a lot of fun!

See I told you I would fill the space. I think I have rambled on enough now we might just need to update you more regularly so it is not so much in one go. Thank you for your Prayers. We Thank God for everyone that is sharing our journey with us.