England now...

G'day all,
well, the end of Russia Mission was great. I had a counsellor (camp group leader) let two girls sneak out of their dorm at 5:00am to say goodbye to me. They were touched and wanted to say goodbye. I turned around as i was about to get in the car to go to see them and was allowed to say goodbye. They were two lovely 15yr old girls. And many more were awesome too. We were able to tell the gospel to all groups and many kids raised their hands to pray to ask Jesus into their lives. Our prayer is that they will read the Bibles we were able to give them and the God will hold them close to Him.

Arrived in London last night and got a lift from my uncle to Lindfield which took us about an hour from Heathrow. Today I had lots of tea, had some great cakes which were bought from the local WI and had a chance to explore the village. It is very beautiful and the house is adorable. They have a cute dog a caramel colour called Charlie, he is kind of like frodo, so that is nice to have another dog.

Am trying to get myself organised for my interviews with the agencies next week. so today i bought a nice top and some black trousers so i can look respectable for my interviews. I looked up where to go and it shouldn't be too hard to train into london and then underground to the relevant stations. i will once again have to catch public transport.

not much more to add... sorry, again no photos, but i will get there eventually... i promise!
love ya
deev

St Petersburg

Well, today is our team day off... It is great, raining... but we are having a good time. The others are buying lots of presents, but i thought i would write, because I am not coming home soon so buying presents would be hard to do. But don't worry, i plan on coming back to Russia when I am in England to explore a bit more.

Now, about the camp. We have 350 kids in the camp, the first few days was spent getting to know them, and then 100 went home and 100 more came (had a change over) so the next few days were spent getting to know the new lot. They are soooo beautiful. We had to do a program with them about choices and healthy teeth. We were able to link the gospel into those lessons. Some kids were very responsive and some wanted to know more, others are very interested in Australia and some not in anything at all. I am having a great time here and God is blessing us through letting us spend extra time with the kids, and giving us lots of additional things that we had left behind (gospel beads from another group who has just left another camp)

our normal day consists of wake up 8:00am, devotions at 8:30, breakfast at 9:30, some time to prepare and then we usually have 2 groups for an hour each, lunch at 2:00, then sleep, snack at 5, two more groups for an hour, dinner at 7:40 and then free time to play sports with kids, talk to them, paint their nails, do their hair, etc etc. they go to bed at about 10ish and we then go for a walk and bed sometime around midnight for us. pretty good routine.

I don't know when i''ll be back at the internet, but just wanted a quick word with how stuff is going, oh and the food isn't nearly as bad as i was prepared for.... praise God.

love you all,
deev
p.s. can't work out how to post photos on this computer, so they will most likely come when i am in the UK!

Singapore

Well, here I am in Singapore, just realised how disorganised I am. Want food, no money, so have to go and change some money to get food... i'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. Free internet and a bit of free time, so thought i would update you all. the guards here carry guns (foreign experience for me)

Flights so far have been good... watched movies, slept heaps, eaten chatted to people, not really done much else, but that is cool.

Am feeling very distant. i now have a something like 12 hrs from Singapore to Helsinki with 1 hr stop in Bangkok and then not long till at Unost Camp in Russia, that is very exciting. Can't wait to meet up with my team and meet the kids and all that stuff in Russia.

can't think of anything else to write, feel free to e-mail me... miss you all, love you all.
right next to a jazz lounge singing priscilla... pretty cool
anyways...
until next time...

3 sleeps to go...

well, that is if i sleep... am very excited, and not yet packed. And there is still so much to do. Is a bit overwhelming really. Am packing my life into two boxes, one for Russia and one that I will meet in England. Not entirely sure what to take, but that doesn't really matter, i spose i can always get more stuff overseas or if not, get my parents to send it over (never know when you really need your favourite teddy or a packet of TimTams).

sorry, no photos this time, but I am having a blast wrapping up my adventures for the time being in Sydney. I'll be back, i love the beach too much. Will miss everyone, but come visit me, or i'll see you upon my return.

love ya

Hello World

This isn't Deev. This is Murray writing. I hacked into Deev's blog for sheer lack of content. Maybe she'll write something soon. Who knows. Might even be interesting too.

preparing to leave...

Well, only a week to go now, and it is getting exciting and quite scary. thanks to all you guys who came to my farewell last night, i had a blast (and hope you did too).

this is my blog site for my adventures over the next little while, so feel free to look it up from time to time for updates (slightly easier than me e-mailing you all ALL the time and doesn't clog up your inboxes!)

love youse all,
and a big deev hug,
deev
=)