Finally back on the net!!!

I have been trying to connect to the net for around 3 or 4 days now to update our blog, but connecting here can sometimes be difficult - and trying to get assistance from the ladies in the lobby is next to impossible as their computer literacy is nearly as bad as their English literacy!!!

anyway it seems I have finally gotten connected - thank you to everyone for your birthday wishes for Naomi they are appreciated! - things here are going well, we are well and truly finished with the ESL classes and have been spending the last couple of days hanging out with anji and ash - Saturday we went to another amazing indoor amusement park that the kids really loved and Sunday we went to MBK which is a massive (8 stories) shopping center - we had lunch there with the barker family to celebrate naomi's birthday - then ash and I took the kids to see MI3 while Naomi and Anji went shopping. There really was not anything else on in English worth seeing, but the kids loved all the explosions and stuff!!

Today we head out to the only real schooling option that is available to us (given location and stuff) for an interview. It should be interesting - Pray that it all goes well for us - in our minds now this is the only obstacle to us moving here in the future - everything else has gone so well!

In 2 days we fly back out to home - with mixed emotions - a big part of us don't want to leave, we are really loving it here and feel at home - another equally big part of us is missing friends and family - and we do want to get back as we are now more eager than ever to take the next step in the Unoh journey - Noble Park.

I have tried a few times to get the emotions I am feeling down on paper - or blog - but it really is very hard - obviously there are a lot of things that have really spoken to me along the way, you cannot help but be affected by things like this - however I have also been very comfortable here - I could really say that I do feel at home.

People have been trying to prepare us for the shock of coming here - the poverty the smells the business etc... To such an extent that I truly believed that coming here would be a harder job than working in Sri-Lanka - however when I got here I found that the experience was very similar - if not less extreme as we have the option here of escaping to starbucks or a shopping centre if things get too full on for us. I feel a real peace here, and love the life and vibe of this city! - the people are great and on the most part very inviting.

anyway, I have to run back up to my room to prepare for our school visit. If I get a chance I'll try to get back down here again this arvo for an update - otherwise tomorrow will have to do.

(P.S. Daniel - I'll try to get Jacob down here this arvo too for an update - thank you again for all your posts!)

Peter