I just got back to work from having five days off. It really was very pleasant. On Friday I had to go to university in the morning which was a monumental waste of my time but I bought the reader and it has some interesting stuff in it. Lots of stuff on critical literacy which has become my new passion. Yes another one. Without going into too much deatail it is basically the idea that teaching people litercy isn’t about just teaching them how to function, you know read and write what they are told, but it is about teaching people how to criticise what they read and express that. Shame that there is not a lot of people doing it so getting a clear idea of how to do it is relatively hard. Not to mention the government policy on basic is education is that it has to lead people to work and that’s it. In the evening we went to dinner with for my grandfathers birthday. It was probably one of the best times I have spent with them in ages. They were relaxed which was nice and the food was great.

Saturday as everyone knows was Helen’s and Jon’s wedding. The highlights were probably having breakfast with the groom before the wedding. Lots of dancing and eating and shoe shining. Helen and Jon’s big smiles as she walked down the aisle and the dancing at the reception. Spike was playing the saxaphone in the band and he is amazing.

Sunday was a lovely day too. I had a nice big sleep in which always makes me happy and spent most of teh afternoon talking with Jem and Jo on the balcony. It is the sunniest spot in our house and it great. Jem and Jo are great too. Praise God for really good women friends that you can share everything with. Of course I had to spent the night at Rough Edges. I am struggling a lot there at the moment. I don’t feel I have much energy for it but it was a pretty good night really and I am learning a lot about my skills as a team leader. Asked God to enable us to be endlessly generous and I kept repeating the prayer. I think it may have worked.

On Monday Martin had the day off too. Given the hours that we keep we don’t get to spend that much time together so it was amazing to get a whole day of it. It was very much needed. We read together, prayed together, ate together, studied together and well that will do I think. I had to go to uni in the evening but I am really enjoying my Spanish course. We are studying Cuba and it is just fascinating. The revolution has not been perfect nt by any means and I have been disappoiinted to discover a lot of the not so nice things about it but I still essentially believe that it has been a good thing for Cuba. I mean who can argue with a country that has one of the highest literacy rates in the world as well as no one goes hungary. Also really a world without with McDonalds. How good would that be. It is good in class though as everyone hs different opinions so there are lots of lively debates – all in Spanish – it is exactly what I imagined uni would be like.

Finally Tuseday. Wow this has been a long post and I imagine everyone is over reading about how good things are for me but well I have made it this far and hey I am competing with Tom. So Tuesday I managed to get a good amount of study done. I did a lot of reading and got my head aroung my assessments. Feel like I know where to frome here which is a nice feeling. I get soooooo stressed sometimes so it is quite odd to be at peace with it all. I even wrote my own essay question, how good is that. Then last night was Commie Dinner. Hard question but good company. I droppped Lucinda home. She is an amazing women I think. Lots of struggles but has come through with a good and a strong faith.

And now I am back at work and I thankfully have things to do so I better get back to it….