After spending 3 and half weeks in a sunny Canada coming back to a rainy England was never going to be easy! We spent a lot of quality time with family and have taken too many photo's to mention. This one of Zara was one of my favourites!While in Winnipeg I enjoyed Playing Wii in the basement with Michael my nephew as all the other children played around us and this theme continued in thunder bay with a few late night sessions playing Fifa on PS3 and watching Dvd's. It was great to spend time with so many faces that we knew in a foreign country and we
travelled about everywhere in convoy visiting various sites and eating, chatting and singing together in the evenings. After a week in Thunder Bay we drove 10 hours back to Winnipeg and It was good to see again the Old Bill in Winnipeg and his daughter Christine. He is a pastor inan inner city church who I had worked with in 2006 on a trip with Jonny Baker for CMS. We joined him at Central Park, a community rejuvenation project that had turned a space used for drugs and the like into a community space with an all weather soccer pitch in the
middle. Nice!! You might think that this photo is of Bill and Christine with a bear...But no that's me!! Arriving back in England has been quite challenging.
Irfana has a month of work left before she finishes her time as the youth and children's worker at Holy Trinity Church, which means within a year we have both been made redundant. It is a time of opportunity with no particular ties to the area any more we could go on an adventure! But it will also be a challenge to find work to pay the bills. Watch this space! At the weekend it was nice to take part in an impromptu street party in our neighborhood and get to know people who live on our estate better. Zara got her face painted and people took to the streets and cooked various food for all to eat for free. Caribbean, Indian, Greek... I was in heaven. With a bit of food in the belly I feel ready for the challenges ahead.
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