As I’m sitting down to write this it strikes me that I don’t actually have a tremendous amount of big news to fill you in on. After my recent five minutes of fame I feel that perhaps returning to the normalities of my life may be a bit of a let down for you, my avid reader, but heyho! Such is life.
Actually, that being said I do have one piece of news. One of my best chums from home recently got engaged and is, covid permitting, getting married sometime next summer & has asked me to be a bridesmaid. The day she asked me if she could call me to ask me something I was inexplicably nervous all afternoon, even though I suspected, and hoped she’d be asking me to be a bridesmaid. (Speaking of being inexplicably nervous, group games always get to me too man! Recently at the church youth group we were playing splat (classic) and my heart was going BOOM BOOM BOOM constantly as I was riddled with nerves. The ridiculous thing is that I am, and always have been, rather good at splat so despite hating every second of it, I can’t quite bring myself to not fully throw myself into it & often end up in the final. Yet I really do hate it with a passion 😂) So yes, I am SUPER buzzing and, all being well, it looks like I might be home for a month or so next year folks!
This whole bridesmaid/hen do thing is really rather fun but quite possibly the most distracting thing EVER as I find myself pondering it at all times of the day and researching when I really should be doing other things, not least of all these things being sleeping. I found myself in rather a cycle the other night when I would think about the hen do and then my mind would start drifting to the wedding, to preparing with said bride to be, her walking down the aisle etc, would start getting emosh and then try to distract myself with hen do planning and then the cycle would continue haha.
For those of you reading my blog posts here in Argentina or in other countries, I should just mention that my observation of hen dos are that they’re a MUCH bigger thing in my home culture than they are here in Argentina, but I will potentially go into this more another time.
Something else to fill you in on is that I did my first ever preach in Spanish! It was NOT on a Sunday thank goodness (that I genuinely wouldn’t be able to cope with because of language and high stress sitchu) & was jointly shared with Nolz, but we were asked if we could do the Saturday eve youth group talk. This was a coupla weeks ago now. It’s funny because if all that happened with the interviewy stuff hadn’t happened then this would have been pretty major news! As it is, I’m getting to it now haha.
It’s sometimes difficult for me to assess how something has gone down when I speak for an extended amount of time in Spanish. In this case, I had written out a script with Noly’s help of course, but I felt rather limited with my handle of the language and would have loved to be able to express myself more freely and completely but anyways, Nolz was also speaking so we had a tag team type of effort.
We spoke on the topic of rest and God’s purpose of the sabbath. When I was thinking beforehand on what I felt God maybe wanted us to talk on I felt a whole load of things come to mind on this topic and felt quite like this was the topic God wanted us to talk about. Then the day or so after I was listening to a Christian podcast (The Real Life Podcast, check it out if you fancy!) which happened to go into this topic so it just felt right.
Despite having it all written down I was still somewhat nervous to begin with. Typically, I thought we had material for maybe 15-20 mins but we were at the front for nearly an hour! Have always been an over-planner haha.
Another thing that happened recently at youth group which I don’t think I’ve gone into is that I gave a bit of a speech the other day! Twas the first youth group back after total lockdown and Cristian was asking for what we’d learnt or experienced over the lockdown and I felt like sharing my testimony of God’s faithfulness to me of late. Giving a long speech in a foreign language and being centre of attention for an extended amount of time is really quite a challenge for me and my voice was super shaky (Nolz said I sounded like I was going to burst into tears any second) but I managed it! Despite it being littered with errors haha.
Other than that, life’s just ticking along. Went out for dinner with Nolz for the first time in a while last week which was lush! We had to all be leaving the restaurant by 23:40 since places here have to be closed by midnight so was quite impressed that we got there at 23h and the food came and we finished before we had to leave.
Oh another thing actually, is that I’ve been getting headaches for about the last week 😔 I suspect it’s due to lack of sleep as I had quite a run of days when I didn’t get 8 hours sleep so I’m still recovering from that, but it’s not particularly very fun! So if you’re someone who prays, please be praying for me and my headaches. It’s also not helped by the fact that my day to day involves a lot of screen time…
The last thing I was gonna mention is that it seems like someone nearby me has recently picked up playing the piano as the other night I was drifting off to sleep with the sounds of a piano floating through my window which was really rather lovely! That, or someone nearby me was playing classical music really loudly haha. But it was really rather idyllic! It hasn’t happened again but I’m hoping it will!
Well pals, I shall leave it there for today. The observant among you may have noticed I now have a page on this blog for my book that I’ve written if you want to have a little nose or maybe a cheeky purchase and come to see me sometime in Salta. I shall also put the link in this blog post too in case you’re interested, so click here if you fancy a look! And if you do get a copy, let me know! It’s rather fun knowing people have it.
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