Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The past 5 days - Yolly's update
Hi everyone, sorry ive taken so long to get back to you!
Alannah and I have been settling into our new routine, which involves helping at a preschool teaching the alphabet and numbers and teaching English to help train preschool teachers with Oasis.
Though this might not seem to be a busy day, getting to and from the different projects, along with the heat, and all the planning and preparation we have to do in our spare time has worn us out BIG TIME. Please pray for good rest and enough time to relax and enjoy ourselves as well as spending time with God.
I'm so thankful that God spoke to me on Sunday at church and challenged me to be honest with Alannah about how I was feeling because it meant that she could be honest with me too and it meant we are more comfortable with each other now and are closer and stronger because of it. We had a fun evening with the youth at another church playing games like uno, laughing until our stomachs ached and riding on the back of motorbikes (without helmets!)
I feel that we've started to bond more with the kids and the women who we've been teaching and I feel like I understand my colleagues more. They are extremely faithful and serving women and men of God!
Because we're feeling quite rundown at the moment, we're worried we're more prone to getting ill especially since many of our friends here have come down with a prolonged virus, which has been devastating to their work. Please pray against illness for us, we'd be really grateful!
Another prayer-point would be in meeting up with and spending time socialising and catching-up with Indian friends. We're feeling the strain of having a lot of work to do and not enough time to meet up with people.
Alannah was delighted to see 2 of her past students from the preschool she used to work in with Oasis during her gap year - Priyakumari and Stephen. There will be many pictures of these 2 kids to come!!!
We love you all and thank you SO MUCH for supporting us and praying for us!
God Bless you and speak to you soon!
Love Yolly and Alannah xxxx
Alannah and I have been settling into our new routine, which involves helping at a preschool teaching the alphabet and numbers and teaching English to help train preschool teachers with Oasis.
Though this might not seem to be a busy day, getting to and from the different projects, along with the heat, and all the planning and preparation we have to do in our spare time has worn us out BIG TIME. Please pray for good rest and enough time to relax and enjoy ourselves as well as spending time with God.
I'm so thankful that God spoke to me on Sunday at church and challenged me to be honest with Alannah about how I was feeling because it meant that she could be honest with me too and it meant we are more comfortable with each other now and are closer and stronger because of it. We had a fun evening with the youth at another church playing games like uno, laughing until our stomachs ached and riding on the back of motorbikes (without helmets!)
I feel that we've started to bond more with the kids and the women who we've been teaching and I feel like I understand my colleagues more. They are extremely faithful and serving women and men of God!
Because we're feeling quite rundown at the moment, we're worried we're more prone to getting ill especially since many of our friends here have come down with a prolonged virus, which has been devastating to their work. Please pray against illness for us, we'd be really grateful!
Another prayer-point would be in meeting up with and spending time socialising and catching-up with Indian friends. We're feeling the strain of having a lot of work to do and not enough time to meet up with people.
Alannah was delighted to see 2 of her past students from the preschool she used to work in with Oasis during her gap year - Priyakumari and Stephen. There will be many pictures of these 2 kids to come!!!
We love you all and thank you SO MUCH for supporting us and praying for us!
God Bless you and speak to you soon!
Love Yolly and Alannah xxxx
Friday, June 19, 2009
Alannah's update
Hey people! This is my insight as to how things have been. Yolly shall be sending her update soon too :)
I don't have much time since again tea will be ready soon...
It is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good to be back. It hit me for the first time that I was actually going back as the plane landed in Bangalore so that was a bit weird and suddenly thought, 'wait, am i sure i want to come back?' at which point it was too late of course but of course now im tres glad i did!!!
One day into being back and I was straight back into the indian accent, lingo and head wobble. All my indian friends have been laughing at me about it and about the fact i still remember the city very well. I've had some interesting 'compliments' since meeting everyone again. The best included, 'you looking a little chubby now', 'hey, wow, you now have blossomed no?' and my favourite, 'wow, you actually look pretty now!' The genuine look of surprise on this person's face as they said it made my DAY hahahaha.
Yolly is just amazing. Thought she's still very tired from the flight, she's already settling in really well. She loves the food and spice and is already getting on well with everyone here too. She even argued with an auto driver the other day because he was ripping us off, i just stood back amazed!
We're working part time with Oasis in the afternoons for 2 weeks teaching English to young girls in Doddigunta (a local slum community) and are running a girls club on Mondays for them. Then the rest of our time is spent at Grace's preschool since she needs more help considering there are only 2 teachers with 75 young children!
Erm dont know what else really to say now...hmmm...im back at Hope Chapel church on Sunday and am really really looking forward to that since most of my indian friends go there. It is really strange being back without Hattie and Becky, i just can't get my head around it at times! I've shown Yolly loads of the places we used to go to especially around the areas where we're living and working and its so strange not having the other 2 with us!
Prayers
- good health, no illnesses yet and hopefully none to come!
- we make the most of our time here but don't push ourselves to do too much at once since we're tiring out quite easily because of our work and the weather.
- we have oodles of fun!
- we will continue to seek God and listen to Him/learn new things from Him :)
Dinner's ready, must dash! byeeeeeeeeeeee
I don't have much time since again tea will be ready soon...
It is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good to be back. It hit me for the first time that I was actually going back as the plane landed in Bangalore so that was a bit weird and suddenly thought, 'wait, am i sure i want to come back?' at which point it was too late of course but of course now im tres glad i did!!!
One day into being back and I was straight back into the indian accent, lingo and head wobble. All my indian friends have been laughing at me about it and about the fact i still remember the city very well. I've had some interesting 'compliments' since meeting everyone again. The best included, 'you looking a little chubby now', 'hey, wow, you now have blossomed no?' and my favourite, 'wow, you actually look pretty now!' The genuine look of surprise on this person's face as they said it made my DAY hahahaha.
Yolly is just amazing. Thought she's still very tired from the flight, she's already settling in really well. She loves the food and spice and is already getting on well with everyone here too. She even argued with an auto driver the other day because he was ripping us off, i just stood back amazed!
We're working part time with Oasis in the afternoons for 2 weeks teaching English to young girls in Doddigunta (a local slum community) and are running a girls club on Mondays for them. Then the rest of our time is spent at Grace's preschool since she needs more help considering there are only 2 teachers with 75 young children!
Erm dont know what else really to say now...hmmm...im back at Hope Chapel church on Sunday and am really really looking forward to that since most of my indian friends go there. It is really strange being back without Hattie and Becky, i just can't get my head around it at times! I've shown Yolly loads of the places we used to go to especially around the areas where we're living and working and its so strange not having the other 2 with us!
Prayers
- good health, no illnesses yet and hopefully none to come!
- we make the most of our time here but don't push ourselves to do too much at once since we're tiring out quite easily because of our work and the weather.
- we have oodles of fun!
- we will continue to seek God and listen to Him/learn new things from Him :)
Dinner's ready, must dash! byeeeeeeeeeeee
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A quick update :)
Hey everyone!
Thank God that we've arrived safely in Bangalore and have a BEAUTIFUL house/room we're staying in :)
Please pray for:
- energy, we're really tired!
- settling down
- a continuation/building of good relationships
- NO ILLNESSES - Alannah's had enough bad experience of that from her last trip and we're only here for a short while and so want to make the most of it.
- We continue to seek God, His will and learn new things about Him.
Sorry we can't chat long but dinner is ready!
We shall set aside some time to give you a proper update soon :)
Much love to you all!
Yolly and Alannah xxxx
Thank God that we've arrived safely in Bangalore and have a BEAUTIFUL house/room we're staying in :)
Please pray for:
- energy, we're really tired!
- settling down
- a continuation/building of good relationships
- NO ILLNESSES - Alannah's had enough bad experience of that from her last trip and we're only here for a short while and so want to make the most of it.
- We continue to seek God, His will and learn new things about Him.
Sorry we can't chat long but dinner is ready!
We shall set aside some time to give you a proper update soon :)
Much love to you all!
Yolly and Alannah xxxx
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