Translation for those who need it - I have one small black chicken!!! This is not a statement of fact but it is something I can say in Urdu. I can say lots of other more useful stuff and really enjoying my Urdu lessons. I now know lots of vocabulary can say hundreds of sentences - this is a reassurance Akhtar keeps giving me.
I have also started my diving lessons, so that's another new skill I am adding to my repertoire. We have had one pool session and it went well. I used to snorkel when I was teenager and I was pleased that many of the things I could do when I was 13, I can still do 24 years later!! We are off up the coast on Sunday for our first open water dive. If we rush we could complete the course before Christmas, but we have decided to take our time and finish it in January.
Rehearsals are still on going, and the new cast members are starting to shape up. There is still a lot of work to do but Lubna and I are confident that we have a winner!
I am down to lead the Carol Service at church on 23rd Decemeber, and then I will be there for Midnight Communion ( well it will be 10.30p..m. as the Urdu service happens at Midnight and my Urdu is not quite up to that yet!) on Christmas Eve and then for the Family Service on Christmas Day. At the moment I have no plans for Christmas Day, but I have seen that one of the channels is showing all six Star Wars films in order one after the other!!!
On the 27th I am off to Egypt for 10 days to see Thomas and his family. Angela, Phil, William and Lucy are arriving on 20th and will be there for Christmas. They go back to the UK on 1st January and then Thomas and I are of to the Red Sea for a few days. I am really looking forward to seeing him as I have missed spending time with him. We speak every week but the last couple of weeks the connection has been a bit ropey and we have had difficulty hearing one another, it will be great to be in the same place at the same time,
The Christmas Tree has gone up at school, and thankfully I have manged to dodge the role of Santa! Apparently some of my colleagues mistook my charm, sense of humour and general bon homie to be the same as "Christmas spirit'! I quickly disabused them of that, and have thankfully, regained my 'Grinch' reputation!
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