Troop night

So tonight was Troop, the "older" crowd. i think the age range was 15-19 tonight and there were 13 of us crammed into the morris' living room. Sara thought it may have been the biggest group (at least since the start of Troop if not the biggest ever).

I talked to the youth about being bold in faith and where they want to go with their faith. I copied a bit of Ian's talk where he used the terror alert colors as a scale for the young people to measure their faith (where would the enemy be if you came around?) I thought it was a good night in general although some points were a struggle to read how the young people were processesing everything. I imagine it will take some time to feel out where to go with the group and see what sort of rutine we go for. I really see a need for some rutine of learning from the Bible and also taking time for the young people to share with other's what's going on. How that all get's worked (or sussed) out remains to be seen.

I am feeling a bit exhausted with all that's happening now. With all the details to be worked out i somehow missed the step where i check with someone (immagration or the U.S. Embassy) to see if i CAN arrange my visa from this end. This leaves me feeling like a bit of a dork in the wake of cacelling my flight out tomorrow...

But the leaders here are OK with it and see that maybe it's better to get some things settled here and then if i need to go back in three months then so be it. Or maybe i just need to be out of England to apply for it (day trip to France, baby!!) I'm a bit stressed though at working things out.

I may very well be into my new place by next wednesday! I'll leave the morris' Sunday night or so (cause they're water will be off for most of next week while they have work done on the new rooms of the house) so it's back to Jan and Lisa's for a few days before i check out the flat (and meet my new room mates).

I helped Ian (Mr. Morris) paint the new rooms today. It was nice to feel put to use and to not think about all the other stuff...i think i'll try and get out a little tomorrow to walk if it's a nice day. I'm also getting into tea here, so that's kinda funny. I didn't like tea much in the states but with a bit of milk and sugar it's pretty good here.

That's the major news right now. I'm off to bed. Good night! :-)