Yo yo yooooo
Well,
Dobre zin! Mina savut claire - is vin it tu per scholzta.. Gutzyi telephone?
Well OK I havent been bothered to learn the hard part of russian (actually learning to write a new alphabet) so i have been listening to one of those dodgy CD's and writing phonetically (ooooo) how I would say things :)
That was 'hello! My name is claire - excuse me please - where's the telephone??'
Rock on!
I am excited for the 1st - Russia is going to Rock so hard. I am nervous and all - but not that much. Tomorrow is my last day working in the Tea Shoppe and its gonna be sad ot leave those girls! Its been nice having a ladies job for a while - which reminds me - uni cell and Mark Conlon (aka the billericay boys) are coming to pester me at work on my last day which should be fun. I am going to miss those dudes to of course.
This stage in life is very strange, i dont know about any of you - I am guessing maybe others feel the same. It is hard having been away, found my independance and friends and surrogate family at university - walking about in the same socks as yesterday and mooching on your own thang...
Than you come home - To a house with rules and 'adults' - They have expectations of you a fellow 'adult' in their household.. I keep forgetting things which drive my Parents up the roof. :(:( But of course, you settle back home - meals are cooked for you. Its a house with sofa's rather than a dorm with a creeky hard as rock bed.
Home church - and all of its lovely people, hanging with my home friends whom have all gone and got houses and husbands :) Chilling at Billericay with the cell group clan, going to 24 hr tescos with our nocturnal youth pastor and watching finding nemo after ANOTHER BBQ!
It's like - two lives. Essex Claire and Student Claire. I love both lives, God has blessed me both home and away - though all of the hardships continues with my Mothers health, family problems and personal struggles after all this is Life isnt it. We are called to live in the Light and I didnt see Jesus taking time out whining about doing the Fathers work 'oooo give me a break man would ya? A diet pepsi and a jacuzzi be fine now block out life in general OK?'
Na... He got jolly well on with his work and hard life. Why? Well, he was holy and knew his Father and his Fathers heart and 2 - HE KNEW HEAVEN..
we have the rest of eternity to be without pain, harship, ill health, crying, loneliness... etc etc etctcccccccc
Thing is I have had it tough whilst home. Really tough at times - with everything but still as i have written above the Lord has blessed me with amazing things that I just take for granted. Through it all he is there in every situation.. What a Dad huh.
YEA! So I hope you all are doing ok - if your still reading my rant lol.. Please pray that I will remember what I have just wrote about Jesus when in Russia and try to work and be open to what our Fathers asks of me :)
Dont let me catch you sk8'in as mark would say :):)
l8rz s8rz x x x x | 
