It's been a funny old week...

It really has been a strange week.

I started the week with a cold and cough which got progressively worse, though I am nearly over it now. This meant that I missed house group on Monday, though I managed to make it through school all week, I really am such a trooper!

Wednesday I had a meeting with Col Iqbal and Sqr Ldr Hasan, who are the committee for the Commonwealth Ex-Service Association, for whom I am leading the Act of Remembrance next Sunday. They really were two retired military gentleman, awfully well spoken and proper! I have got a slight problem witht he service next weet as I arrive back from Kuwait at 4.30am on Sunday morning and the service starts at 9am!! We are hoping that the flight is not late.

Thursday night took me to the Opera with Dan and Ruth from church. A group of French opera Singers were here to perform excerpts from Mozarts Operas. They were very good and I enjoyed the evening, even though I didn't really know what was going on as it was all in Italian and German. I travelled over to Dan and Ruth's before the concert for supper, which involved crossing the centre of the city at rush hour. Add to this that all the traffic lights were out, so it was the usual chaos of driving here, times ten!!

Saturday, took me into the safe hands of Prof Ambreen whilst she fitted my crown to complete my current dental work. I am now the proud wearer of a new porcelain crown for the cost of 64 GBP.

I spent the afternoon lounging around and made a couple of calls to the UK, spending most of the time telling Katey and then Meg how much I was enjoying life here and how happy I am here. And that is still true, life here is great and I am loving it.

Later of course I realised that the President had declared Emergency Powers and that we are now living in a State of Emergency. The immeadiate effect is limited at the moment, all news channels have been switched off, so I can only find out what is going on by checking with teh BBC website. We were also advised by the BDHC that we should stay inside today, which I have done. I have had a message to say that school is running as normal tomorrow, so we will have to wait and see what else happens.

At the moment Karachi is very quiet and the information I can get on line is that most of the country is quiet. What happens next is anyone's guess, we can only pray that people remain calm and don't become violent.

Next week I am supposed to be taking 19 pupils to Kuwait, whether this goes ahead I won't know until tomorrow, but if we have to cancel the President will have more than the politicians to worry about, he will have 19 very dischuffed teenagers to deal with, far more scary in my opinion!!!