travel

Pen left yesterday to start her new job, she has a lot of travelling in front of her and will not get to her final destination until Thursday we think. She was very excited and full of anticipation to be starting in a new country. It was hard for us and her to say ‘goodbye’ but I have come to the realisation that she loves her work and doing that kind of work is where she wants to be. She says that the aid workers world is a small world and she goes already knowing other workers in the area. That will help her feel at home quicker.

I love this story I hope that her life is not really going to be like this.

Now my other big news is that Sarah, Arthi and Riya leave this week for Vanuatu. Their house was packed up today and they are staying with some friends until Saturday. They had their farewell party last Saturday which started early in the afternoon and went late into the night. I remember those wonderful Canberra parties where people drop in. We will miss them but will be able to keep in contact by Skype and hopefully Ses is going to start a blog.

My daughter leaves tomorrow to work in Sudan. While I am extremely proud of her, I am nervous and frighten at the same time. However, I know that she is a very professional young lady and that she will be sensible and that she will do a very good job. So this is my illustration for this week -leap in faith, leap into a different culture, leap into a different world……I think that the title could be any of those.