Back in Pèdè

We are safely back in our house in Pèdè, and very happy to settle somewhere after a summer of travelling! (We like travelling too, but after a while it's good to stop!)

For us parents, at least, the familiar routines are easy to pick up again, and it really doesn't feel like we were gone for a year. It was lovely to be welcomed back by the translation team and their families, and to be back in our church here again.

For the kids, a year is a long time, but when we first arrived back in the house they were too excited about getting out all the toys they left here to worry about anything else! And their friends here have been round to play too, and they picked their friendship back up where they'd left off, which was good to see. It is nice to have space again, both in the house and the compound, after living in a relatively small flat with very close neighbours! If I find Benjy a bit loud I can move (or move him) to a different bit of the house!

I am happy to be back with my team again. It is so much easier to coordinate our work when we are all in one place! And if I have a question I can just ask it, rather than sending an email and having to wait until their connection is good enough to pick up my email and reply.

It is rainy season, and our first few days back were very wet. Then we had a week without rain, by the end of which everyone was saying we really needed rain for the fields. And then yesterday it rained steadily from 7am till 3pm, so that was a relief.



Houses and fields on the outskirts of our village



"It's raining, it's pouring..."