Am i having fun?

They say Time flies when you're having fun, so yeah, I probably am.
It's already December, which for most of you comes as little surprise as you've watched the dates tick over, however, for me september begun yesturday.

Yesturday I arrived, met 15 wide eyed stranges, each expressing their exitement in a unique way. Some were nervous, others excited and ready to go. Only 2 knew each other, they were married, the rest of us a group of individuals in a new world, a cold world, we needed to find something to grab onto and anchor ourselves.

Tommorrow I leave behind 15 friends, we're still individuals but we're now a family. It sounds strange after only 2.5 month but we'll miss each other for the next 2 weeks as we go on holiday, a quick break before we say farewell and break in two. Our family split, sent across the globe in two opposite directions. Greenland. Tibet.

For me (and Nick, my american room mate, we have spent 2.5 straight months together, we're travelling over break together and heading to tibet together... we might just get sick of each other, who knows...- it soging to add up to seeing each other every day for 9 months expect maybe 1-2 weeks spead out somewhere in the middle -) the journey ahead looks like this:

4 days in Liverpool with the wonderful Mr. William Evans and his friends complete with an English christmas dinner including a course of gammon. All cooked by Joy. (thats christmas dinner #2, #1 was 2 days ago at base)


5 days in Denmark with Line's family, she is taking in a group of us, christmas will arrive here, so will christmas dinner #3 (danish style) im sure it will be a time of fun, food and fine wine (well as fine as our increasingly shrinking YWAMer budgets can allow)

a loverly 30+ hours of travel on train, plane and boat via sweeden to Latvia will follow for our new years celebrations with Madara in her place just outside of Riga the capital! We've been promiced great food (chistmas leftovers LAtvia style, im counting that as Dinner #4) I'm almost certain we'll be spending some stage of the journey on the pavement outside or just inside a transportation station in the wee hours of the morning. I guess it will be cosier than in Tibet, and warmer...

So thats Christmas.

Onto Tibet.

Tibet, for those unaware, lies under the rule of china, they're kind tight... well thats an understatment.
They monitor everything going in and out. People, radiowaves, movies, telephone calls, email, blogs.
They dont like christians, well they do, they just dont like them being open about it. as such i cannot email or receive email about anything to do with God, outreach, prayer etc. you know, all that religious stuff... so seeing as though my Blog and email is peppered with it I shall be making a new blog and link this one to it (see hte linkson the left). i will also create a new email and let you know what it is... stay posted.

I'll smack up an itinery, its not very detailed, basically arrive in beijing on the 8th of Jan, organise tickets to Xining (tibet) as fast as possible (about 1 week) spend 6 weeks there with 1 of the weeks spent in a nearby city taking a break. then back to beijing to organise tickets and visas to take the Trans Siberian railway for 10 days to Moscow, then home via estonia!

so thats the basic outline, my communication will drop a fair bit as i travel seeing as though the people in tibet live in sketchy wood huts and burn yak dung for warmth... not much chance of an internet connection!

now its late, im tired and rambling so ill stop, ill use my same email and blog till the 7th of Jan so if you want more details give me a shout! would love to hear from you.

You're prayers are more than welcome. Team unity, saftey, energy and trust in God would be some good things to pray for, and that He reveals a heap to us and we come back different (in a good way) people!


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