Tuesday - Breaking a sweat?

Hey,
Tuesday has been pretty laid back...
Started around 10ish got up and showered read a little bit and then caught the bus into town to meet one of the youth from SV, Mait, Mait is a fair bit younger than me and by my reckoning probably should have been in school but he broke his arm a few weeks back and met me after a trip to the doctors, so i guess it was OK...
We went to the theatre coffee shop and sat and caught up (in Estonian) and exchanged stories about how things had been and what we had both been up to...
At about 1 i went over to Pedro's house ((aka Pets, Peter, Peetruse) another of the young people) Pets is pretty much at the helm of the youth work at SV along with a bunch of others so we talked a fair bit about whats coming up and whats been going on in my absence (more growth by the sounds of it) watched Nacho Libre (very very funny) and ate pelmeenid...
Pets is really keen for me to start playing guitar with him in worship which is more than a little daunting, but at the same time his "you can do it" attitude is always a massive encouragement when i feel like putting myself down and or quitting without making a decent attempt...
After that i came back and read a few more days worth of daily bible (i am now ahead of schedule!), stacked a trailer full of wood into the garage with Alari (during which i actually broke a sweat despite the -8 or so temperature), watched 24, ate and came up to read the live text of the derby game (currently 1-0 Yay...)
So yeah not a massively productive day but i caught up with a few people and made a few plans which is always good... i might at some point soon be taking a team of young people to some village somewhere to try and start some youth work which will be interesting and tomorrow i am meeting a Norwegian friend to catch up on how the church he works with is going etc and after that i am back off to the capital with Pet's to prepare for the gig and to get ready to meet where on earth (UK christian band) from the airport Thursday am...
I could be out of reach for a while as the next 4 days are likely to be hectic and busy but i will be updating ASAP

God Bless

Paul

"Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not"

Tallinn - bus station - sunday

First few days back...

OK so i arrived back in Estonia yesterday (Sunday) slightly early and made tracks straight down to Parnu, Tracks being in this case an understandably slow bus!
Despite the weather having been exceptionally warm throughout winter so far it seems winter has been timed to coincide with me being here, when i arrived it was around -5 with a fair bit of snow and ice on the ground and today was forecast at -32 fortunately it hasn't quite hit those heady heights (lows!) but it has been around -15 all day which made me glad to have quite a relaxing day..
Back to Sunday, Sunday was much busier than i was expecting normally i get in and the first day is just travel, travel, travel, eat, sleep... but this time it was travel (including sleep), travel (watch half a movie), band practise, band practise, band practise, eat, watch half a movie, sleep..
On arrival i received a call from Kris telling me that the whole band were in Parnu and i should go there quickly to practice a bit before the gig on Friday so i jumped on a few buses and was on my way, on the way i decided to watch "Blood Diamond" without realising it was longer than the journey (and completely amazing by the way) so anyway i managed half before hitting Parnu and climbing the 3 stories to get on with the practise...
The practice went well when i could remember the words and we now have a new sax player who is freaking awesome so the music has a new professionalism to it and a nice big lineup again...
Today then i basically slept quite late and then went downstairs to get a bite to eat... While i was down i talked with Alari over a cup of Christmas tea and basically explained what has been going on back home in my heart etc, what i doing back here again!! and what i am hoping for after that we prayed for each other and i came upstairs to read...
I am reading 2 things at the moment #1 the daily bible in chronological order (which i want to read in 3 months) #2 Organic Church ;growing faith where life happens (which in all honesty i brought to get free shipping on amazon- but is already pretty interesting)

So waffling aside i am back again and this time much more committed to keeping contact i will be blogging daily when i am not overly busy and at the very least weekly and i expect you all to hold me to it...

God Bless

Paul

"In the beginning God" Genesis 1:1