3 weeks later

It is now 3 weeks since I sheltered in a hotel courtyard with my children, my husband and our friends, listening to the frightening sounds of gunfire exploding around Juba. Wondering how close it was to us. Wondering what it would mean for Juba. Feeling vulnerable and afraid.

Since July 10th, we have been privileged to be in Nairobi. It has been good to feel safe. It has been a relief to regroup with some of our MAF Juba team and to be able to welcome more friends from various organisations as they have evacuated out of Juba. It has been helpful to receive help and support. We have had a busy time of appointments, meetings and also lots of opportunities to spend time with good friends :-) and Andrew has been able to do some flying within Kenya for the MAF Kenya programme.

It has been a challenge to try and finish our academic year of home-school, living and working in an unfamiliar house, on a busy compound and without our school books. We did the best we could - and finished this year's home-school on Tuesday morning! Horray!

To celebrate, we went out to our favourite Nairobi Chinese restaurant, "For You" and enjoyed delicious food and time together, to present the children each with a certificate and gift.

Photos will be posted at a later date- the internet does not want to work right now!!

Now our time in Nairobi is finishing and we are literally about to get into a taxi to the airport to fly to England for home assignment.

So now we look forward to seeing many of  you there, very soon! :-)