Today was the day - I was both excited and nervous. Our first center visit would have 3 of the kids we sponsor. Not only did I wonder how it would be meeting Cassandra and her mother again, but also there were two others to meet - In additon to
Today is moving day - we are going from the hotel we've been staying at to a different hotel that was more central to the centers that we'd be visitng. We had to be out of the hotel at a reasonable time so we had breakfast
Well its been a while - its a bit unusual to try write this so long (almost 3 months afterwards), but maybe in a way its good - a chance to stop and look back, to re-process using images and location data. So Day 8 I have 15 photos in
Well I'm fairly behind on my blog posts but I still intend to sit down and catch up. Once we got onto the official part of the trip our days were full on, and even though there was spare time at the end of each day, the energy
Rather than do a post about the next day I thought I’d do a post about Kirstine and Mark. You’ll see a couple of mentions in my previous posts to ‘a young couple’ that we saw, or mention that we purchased some food for them, and in my
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Last time I was here I went on Air BnB experiences, and searched for something that would get me out and about to places I might not otherwise go to, and I found Mary who was offering various tours, including a city tour - you can read all about that
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Today was mostly about getting things ready for the Tearfund part of the trip. Both at home and here in NZ we’d bought items for our sponsored children and also for the centres. I was really keen to get them into their bags, to make sure we had enough
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Today started off like most have so far, a slow start. I seem to sleep in a bit more than Christine does, I figure with the schedule that is coming up the extra sleep now is gonna help! Today in general is a bit of a relax day again. We
Today we decided to have breakfast at McDonalds. It was fairly busy, but Christine managed to get a table reasonably quickly. We ordered hot cakes, a duo burner and a breakfast burger which was scrambled egg, a sausage Pattie on a different bun. I don’t recall how much it
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Today we had an alarm set (shock horror), so that we would wake up at an early enough time to get to the breakfast buffet downstairs. The buffet had all the usual suspects, meat, eggs, cereal, pancakes etc. There were load of options, definitely something to suit everyone. There was
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Day 2 started with a big sleep in! We got up at around 10/10.30 am, according to my watch I got 13hrs sleep. I’m hoping for a few more sleep in’s over the next few days. Once we get to the tearfund part of the trip
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It’s been a whirlwind couple of days! We started off in NZ on Monday with viewing Grandma at Windsor Funerals. It’s a simple room, with Grandma on the table, covered by a cloth (coffin arrives the next day). This was the first time Nathan saw Grandma since she
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Written a few days before 5th February Approx 1 year and 10 months later I am getting ready to go back to Cebu in the Philippines, this time with Christine which is super exciting. I cannot wait to take Christine to see some of the places I have already been
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For the last month or so Christians around the world have been going thru the rhythms of remembering the Easter story. At the church that I go to, Windsor park there have been lots of opportunities, and resources which all comes to a conclusion on Easter Sunday, where we celebrate
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Hello! It seems I am not very good at maintaining a blog, as once again 3 months have past. I know we say it every year, but its crazy how fast time goes, and it feels like it's going faster as I get older! - It feels like
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2024 was an interesting year - there was a lot going on both at home, and around the world. I guess every year there is a lot going on, and every year we hope/wish a better year the following year - but when we look back at each year,
