Quick, quick! But that is hard to do, as I have become less and less efficient the more time I spend in Spain. I can´t imagine it getting any better in Morocco.
Since finishing the Camino, we have been traveling south, staying with friends of friends. In Madrid we stayed with the Nordgrens and Karin Harper (they are with an organization called SEND). They knew Phil Jolley (with an orginazation called ECM) who needed some help at a retreat in the province of Ciudad Real. So we looked after several English and German kids. We didn´t plan on this before, but it was a neat opportunity that just popped up.
At the retreat, a place called Sol Verde (www.sol-verde.com), we met the director of ECM who suggested we visit his sister in Granada. We said ¨Sure!¨and in a few minutes, he said, ¨She will be expecting you tonight.¨ Its amazing how God brings these things together.
We were very blessed to stay with Rowena (British) and Paco (Spanish) in Granada. We have been learning a lot about hospitality these last few weeks and they are great examples.
From there we traveled to La Linea, the town right at the foot of Gibraltar to visit Melissa McKeehan, from our home church. She is a language assistant in a public school there. We visited Gibraltar, part of the UK, and saw a cool British supermarket.
Currently, we are in Algeciras with Mark and Robin, friends of a friend in Knoxville. Tomorrow, we leave Spain after almost 2 months here. We can see Morocco from here and tomorrow will be a travel day to Tangier and then (as quickly as we can - I´m not a big fan of port cities) to Fés. Mark and Robin have been giving us suggestions and orientation about Morocco today.
We have met a lot of amazing, bi-lingual (or tri- and quadralingual), generous, and hospitable people that we have really been blessed by in the past few weeks. I´ll never be able to pay them back, but I can be changed by my time with them, to learn from them!
I´ve added lots of new pictures in the picasa albums. Some new ones of the middle of the Camino too (that I forgot to put in there!)
2 comments:
Why is Melissa mopping behind her couch? Are you supposed to do that?
Please put down the Tasty Cheese Ballz and Spam. It's very disturbing to me.
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