Photo Friday

Saturday: a day of lots of travelling but I was so grateful to arrive safely at Philadelphia airport (pictured) which had been closed the day before because of the snow.  I also made a crazy connection time in O'Hare to safely reach Colorado Springs.

Sunday: worship at V7.

Monday: arriving at MTI to start PILAT!

We take air hockey so seriously here that there has to be snack breaks.  It has been so fun to be a part of the community here, including losing at air hockey to five year olds.

A walk on Wednesday - Colorado Springs is so beautiful!

On Valentine's Day I woke up to a rose on my doorstep.  And this was the view!  Later that day it snowed so hard the mountains disappeared. 

Friday: We've been learning ways of learning a language, different methods and activities.  And we've also been given the chance to put those methods into action - in my case, by learning Russian.  It was actually really fun and I have finished this week feeling encouraged that learning Czech might actually be achievable.

Photo Friday 4th - 10th February

Saturday: seeing Les Mis with Rach and Jayne.  Loved it!

Sunday afternoon at the Bowmans.

Before leaving I had to do some tidying...

A Tuesday evening treat after a lot of speaking.

Love these two!

A Ground chai latte with Rach.  

Skype with Martina on Friday.  So, so great.

Photo Friday 23rd Jan - 3rd Fe

Julianne bought me this incredible book with a whole section on Americanisms, which were annotated.  

Sunday afternoon perfection.

I love waking up to the view.

Chocolate chip pancakes.

My prayer cards arrived!  Crazy!

Pizza night with friends: so much fun.

My internet's advertising has been taunting me... 

Prayer Requests

Hello lovely people - the next nine days are full of meetings and preparation as I hopefully travel to the US on February 9th to attend missionary training for five weeks. I thought I would share these prayer requests - I would really appreciate prayer for these things. 

I am in awe of how God is already preparing me, answering prayers and providing - thank you so much for your support!

A Pep Talk

This short YouTube video is worth your time!  It's possibly worth your time every morning.

"The world needs you to stop being boring, yeah you...  Boring is easy but you're better than that...  You've got a heartbeat - that means it's time to do something...  Get a better dream.  What will you create that will make the world awesome?  Nothing if you keep sitting there...  We can make everyday better for each other.  We've got work to do.  We were made to be awesome."

Photo Friday

It's been a fun week!  I worked three days at the start of the week and got quite a lot done.  Two weeks from tomorrow I'll be heading to the States for training so these next couple of weeks look busy and full of good, exciting things.  

Saturday: fun in the snow!

Sunday: downtime with a movie.

Monday: a view of snowy Saintfield from work.

Waking up on Tuesday morning.

And on Wednesday the snow was still around!  (Can you tell how much I love snow?!)

Not sure why I didn't document Thursday better - it included a great, productive meeting in the morning and a trip into Belfast in the afternoon, but here's a picture of Daisy.

Friday: the.element was back!  So good to be back again.

Photo Friday

How I motivate myself to reply to emails sometimes...

Sunday: in church, boots off, toes warming on the heating pipe.

Every night this cat curls up beside me.  I don't know what she's going to do when I go to Colorado!

I've had to make a few Colorado-related calls this week, which led to some area-code searches, with some amazing spellings of Colorado.

Wednesday: the most delicious sandwich (brie, ham and apple and cranberry chutney) that was great fuel for a wonderful time with the dship ladies and then homegroup!

My companion in the break room at work on Thursday.

Friday: it snowed!  I was so excited!  Cue a late night adventure down to granny's house.  I adore snow.