All is Well

Firstly an apology for not keeping in contact by any of the means you may have expected communication; email, postcards, letters, phonecalls, telegrams, carrier pidgeons. I don't have enough time to send all the emails I'd like to send, and I don't have enough money to send all the postcards I'd like to send. And I don't have a whole lot of emotional and psychological energy for blogging. So this post wont be exhaustive.

But enough excuses.

People say that when you get married, you realise how selfish you really are. Same goes for community living, especially with new people with whom you are trying to assert your identity with. Thankfully, I've got past that stage and I'm forming some real relationships with people:

There's Sonja, a valleygirl from California who pretends to be ditzy but is actually more intelligent than she wants to be given credit for. She's obsessed with Australia and wanted to swap my crappy carry-on with her expensive backpack because Dad painted a kangaroo on it. She's only 18, and agreeing to the trade would be to take advantage of her.

Seth will be pleased to know that there's another Seth here (from Texas). He's really cool too. He's got a great sense of humour - not witty - but he's the sort of person who is just funny in his delivery and general approach to life, kind of self-effacing. He's a bit chubby and scruffy, with a black beard and a beanie, and so when he sits under the tree and reads, he looks like a gnome.

There's Casey from Alaaaabaaaama, who looks like Sly Stallone. He's great too. He's one of the main immitators of my accent, which every one does very badly. England and Australia are two different places!

Chad stayed for a couple of weeks. He's not a Christian but he grew up in a Dutch Reformed home in New Jersey. He's incredibly intelligent and witty, and please pray with me that God will soften his heart.

There's more people I could blog about, but I have to ride back to L'abri soon. Don't get me wrong, I do like to keep in contact with people, I'm just very bad at it, and easily overwealmed by all that is happening at this end.