Home Alone (well almost!)

It is Sunday night and Andrew is on plane to Mumbai. He arrives in the early hours of the morning and gets a few hours in a hotel before heading to Pune on Monday morning. Tuesday night sees him off to London and Saturday will see him home again (for 24 hour at least!)

That leaves me almost home alone. Jenny is here and seems to be settling in well. She does all our cooking, cleaning and errands as well as looking after the house and Sachi while we are away. She is possibly the most underworked Domestic Helper in the whole of Hong Kong, but we like her and it makes our lives here a whole lot easier. Sachi is of course home with us as well - as skittish as ever she still spends a lot of her day hiding in our wardrobe, but she seems to be slowly getting used to the new place

We goy blinds this weekend in the Living Room, Study and Guest Room. The bedroom still has 'newspaper curtains' as we want to re-use our Japan ones but need to get them altered first. Maybe this week :-)

We are thanking God that we were out of Japan before the big earthquake this week. We have managed to get hold of all our friends and colleagues now and they are all safe, but rather shaken by the whole situation. A couple of our expat couple friends were in the process of relocating from Japan for work reasons - I think they are all rather relieved now to be leaving. Andrew's Japanese colleagues described it as the worst earthquake they had ever experienced, so all in all it was rather unpleasant. Disneyland where I took Kyla was evidently flooded by first the liquefaction and then by the high tide cased by the Tsunami. That is a bit close to our old apartment for comfort!

We have been the last couple of weeks back to ECC - the church we attended when we were last in Hong Kong. It is great to be back in a such a vibrant church that is reaching out to it's community. There is a home group nearby where we are living, so we will try and get organised to go along to that. For the next 40 days the church is joining with 28 other churches in Hong Kong and participating in the Faith by Hearing program which involves listening to a reading of the New Testament for around 30 minutes a day - getting through the whole thing in the forty day period leading up to Easter. It will be good discipline and I am sure we'll learn lots - I need to get on and download the recordings.

That is about it for news. I am working here in HK for the next two weeks which is great - so nice to feel like I am spending more time at home than away!

Love xxx000

Sonia