Evangelsim on the beach, cable cars and 6 way international skype conversations

Firstly sorry its soo long, its been a very busy week!

This week has been really good. On Monday Dave and i wondered over to CEF early in the morning for the kids rally. It went well again, the guys especially enjoying a crazy game of lets all run around after the football! I have enjoyed building relationships with the kids despite the language barrier, i can say hello, how are you, and that's about it! After an average pizza for lunch (we wont be going there again) we sat around in CEF chatting and going on the fast Internet. In the evening Maki had a call from his flat saying the water had all ran out. So we went to get a tank with the land rover and went backwards and forwards a few times filling it up and emptying out into their tank. We also got a suflaq for dinner whilst the tank was filling, we came back to find the front drive flooded! We eventually got home at about 11pm, but it was quite a fun evening of chatting and fellowship.

Tuesday morning I ran to CEF and then we walked back to the bus stop and went to the beach! Me and Visar (the kosovan guy who's name i forgot) went together and handed out these leaflets about Christianity to the kids. Most of them seemed quite interested, it was annoying that i couldn't talk to them too, i just said hi and thank you / goodbye. In the afternoon I met up with Dave and we went around the 1st century amphitheatre which was cool. And then we went up this hill to this bar with amazing views over Durres.

On Wednesday we went to the beach again, this time a nicer one, not so busy. Mim Dave and I went with the pastor from church and his wife and his 4 year old son Danieli and his fried. We had a fun time playing with an inflatable shark and relaxing on the sun lounger until two four year olds started poking you in the face!

On Thursday morning we went to a very nice pancake cafe for breakfast with mim and then Besi drove us to Tirane. We went up the mountain in the cable car which had cool views over Tirane. We had a very nice picnic and a beer in the posh bar and then headed back down.

Yesterday I ran over to CEF for the kids craft morning. I spent the morning drawing round little kids hands and helping them cut them out (stopping them cutting fingers off) and sticking a lolly stick on. We then played 4 year olds versions of jenga and connect 4 which was fun. In the afternoon Dave and I went to a village called Dushk with maki for a good news club, we went there 2 weeks ago so was cool to see them again, and they wer all very excited about getting their invitations to camp.

Yesterday evening we had a very fun 6 way conversation on Skye spanning 3 countries. Loads of my friends from Bristol wer online as well as Charlotte in Amsterdam and me and Dave here. We chatted for a few hours which was cool, as we havent all been together for ages!

We now have only 11 days left! its gone so quick but I'm really enjoying it. I really could see my self working with kids here one day, or somewhere else in a developing country. You can see how much we take for granted in the UK, and small things u do here make a big difference to them.

Next week we are doing out reach on the street, and i think I'm going to be planning the ice breakers, so that should be fun.

hope all is well with you, please comment.

Josh