From home to home.

It's been a while... And I know there's lots to say, I'm just trying to think of it all! My head is a bit of a shambles just now, life's been a whirlwind. I guess I'm not getting bored which is always good, and there's certainly no routine to my days which is definitely a bonus. I hate routine. So. I got back from a week in France yesterday. Well not a week. Less. I missed my flight, ended up going to my friend Josie's in Glasgow for the evening, she took good care of me, and I got the last train back to the airport, slept there with about 10 other people and got the early flight Wednesday morning. It was worth the nightmare travels. Chats with Nathan til 2am, mum's amazing cooking and our good conversations in the kitchen, fun family meals (in or out), crazy sayings like "how handy" in a weebl and bob voice and the newest additions to the "rule number one" skit, actually talking to dad (he's usually out when I call home), seeing Joe and Ben grow up - Joe's now taller than me. He's 14. It's wrong! I also saw my friend Cecily and we caught up which was good. I went to see The Devil Wears Prada with mum, and that was fun. And spent a lot of Sunday at church, got roped into singing in the music group of the French service and enjoyed Saint Michael's. So I had a lovely time and felt it was too short. I'm not sure I want to be back in Edinburgh yet. But I'm here with plenty to do and juggle. EcoSoc stuffs, seeing people, uni work, little foxes, and preparing all the forms etc for my bunac interview for camp America. The interview is on Saturday. At last. But there's lots of filling out of forms and photocopies and stuff to be done before then. I'd better get going. As events coordinator for EcoSoc, I'd better coordinate some events.

Fun Times!

I am so excited - my flatmate Katy said last night that my other flatmate Stevo was really interested in going along to some church thing with me sometime. Stevo's been in the USA for the past 10 days or so, so he hasn't been able to tell me himself. I suggested Christianity Explored which starts a week on Thursday (though I will be in France for the first one) but Katy said that it'd be good for them both to go along to that. How amazing! And Arpita (my other flatmate) is also interested in Christianity so I'm going to get her along to Christianity Explored too. Who knows, by the end of the year I could be living with 3 Christians. Psalm 97 1 The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad let the distant shores rejoice. 2 Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. 3 Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side. 4 His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles. 5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth. 6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory. We've had a few close disasters in the flat in the past couple of days, and even past couple of weeks... Katy and I made one of the plug sockets spark so almost starting a house fire. Katy took the radiator off its hinges and got water spurting all over the place. Turns out we got a new radiator fit today because the other one was ancient and waiting to break anyway. Katy and I took about 15 minutes to work out where the rinsing aid goes in the dishwasher, putting it every place we could think it might go. Stevo put the washing machine on at 90 degrees C making it foam a lot. A LOT. The builders did something to the pipes making them make a very loud and unnerving noise in the kitchen until we turned the hot water off.

And in spite of loving it here and feeling very happy here and loving stuff going on (things at work are much much better so far this week) I'm missing my dad, mum and brothers desperately and can't wait to go home next week and catch up with them, hopefully spend some quality family time. Or maybe we'll manage a meal when we're all there!

Chocolate makes everything better.

Today was the worst day at work ever. Have you ever heard of 6 and 7 year olds being actually evil? It exists. How do you deal with it? Dunno, no precedent for it in any of the staff team's careers. So horrible kids and no idea of how to deal with it, makes for a horrendous day, added to a pretty appauling walking bus (which looked nothing like a bus) to the club from school in which I almost lost 2 children. But I got home and my flatmate Arpita greeted me with a bar of galaxy chocolate, which made everything better. She knows me too well!