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Sunday, December 05, 2004

TEAS finally hits Albania!!

Hi Everybody!!

We are currently in Durres - port city of Albania!! After a few flights that seemed to go on for almost forever we finally arrived in Tirana yesterday!
Our last day in Singapore was full of excitement! Millions of photos of us holding snakes at a snake farm :-) and then dinner at a restaurant with HOT Thai food and drama as we rode in a taxi (6 of us!) to the airport...got a wee way away from the restaurant and ems discovered her handbag was still at the restaurant! Could in no way communicate our predicament to the taxi driver so ended up calling Tim (friend of the Cotters bringing our bags to the airport)on the cabbie's phone and telling him the problem. Got to the airport and after a few minutes mad searching Tim, Christine and the bags arrived!! Then Tim sped off to rescue Em's bag and we rushed around checking in etc. Was a VERY tight thing in the end but we all (including the handbag) made it safely on the flight! Yay! Then a wait in Frankfurt airport...long enough to have a slide show on the computer of the HUNDREDS of photos taken by the boys (proper tourists that they are!!) On another plane, change at Vienna then arrive in Tirana :-) We were met by Will (ECM missionary also), had coffee, went out for a pre-dinner munch with he and his wife and another, then back to ABI (Albanian Bible Istitute) where we are staying and all in bed and asleep by 8ish! Rather tired! Spent today in Tirana meeting with another ECMer and the autism care place people - VERY lovely people.....saw the main square.....sat in traffic for ages! Had lovely sufllaqe for lunch and are now back in Durres at an internet cafe where we mostly can't access our emails! So a big SORRY from us to you for the lack of emails and/or replies!!
Overall an amazing first whole day experienceing more of what makes Albania what it is, learning a few more words and settling in! THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS! We should have net access again soon and will be in touch then!
this was posted by sharon by the way :-)
Sorry it's not pretty - this computer is pretty archaic....net access anyways!

posted by Adam at Sunday, December 05, 2004

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi there Teasers. So good to read of your progress to date and to know that is is not Tony who is missing planes and leaving things behind. Weather is cold windy and wet here - wollen jersey and jeans today! Does that mean I could be in Albania. We paryed for the Greaves family today. They are off to India for a short term. Also for KAthryn Mihaela and Emma who are off on teen missions. Dave and Rosie left yesterday so we will have a busy prayer agenda for overseas people for the next month or so. We are rejoicing that 12 year ten students became Christians at the year ten camp last week. They had shocking weather, but does God need fine weather to work in lives?? Bless you all. Will send you a more personal message to your student email TOny. Love to you all, Robyn.PS Tony, because I was wondering what you were up to, I emailed Rachel - thought she could edit a message from you to forward to me!!

December 05, 2004 3:21 PM  
Blogger Ricardo said...

G'day People,

Sounds like you're all having an awesome time! Did you finally get your rolex, Adam? I've finally got around to checking your website and it's been great fun to catch up with all the fun stuff you guys are up to - keep it up!

A wee congrats to Adam for (surprise, surprise) passing all his papers this semester, as you may know by now Tim, Dave and I have also passed.

I think that at this point I should point out that I'm Adam's friend and classmate and I'm afraid I haven't the faintest idea who the rest of you are except Tony (who I met once or twice very briefly). However, conicedences, it's a small world etc. etc. I do know a friend of ShaRon's; Diana Slight. I was catching up with her (as she is a long time friend of mine here in Aucks) and, stangely enough we both knew someone that was off to Albania for the summer. Now Albania is not exactly tourism central so we figured it must be more than coincidence. Long story short, it's a small world etc.

For Adam's interest I thought I'd leave a quick update on what I've been doing - nothing. And having a great time with it all as well! I've just got back from a rainsoaked summer holiday weekend on the Coromandal, which was still heaps of fun. I went to Natasha's 21st (which was a combined celebration with her brotheres graduation and 25 years of owning their boat (http://www.sorenlarson.co.nz). As a result I knew Sarah, Natasha, Fraser and Gareth Evans and no-one else of the 70ish people there. By the end of the evening (3-4am?) I knew substantially more people after the most fancy evening of my life so far. Wow, do those rich toffs know how to lay on a spread! Good times!

Other than that I've sorted out accomodation in Hams (aka Hamiltron aka Hamvegas etc.) 15mins walk from town with a couple of 19 year old girls (one taking a year off from Uni and working full time and the other a student) in a flat that's slightly higher quality than Tara Street. We're still looking for a fourth flatmate.

Anyway, the reason I though I'd post this as a comment is that you mentioned having trouble accessing email and I thought this might be more convenient. Feel free to email me back, rather than post, if you are able to (gooner@clear.net.nz).

Keep having heaps of fun times and I'll keep being jealous of the dozens of people I know who are off travelling all over the world (hooray for relatively cheap airfares, we wouldn't have been able to do all this so easily 50 years ago!).

Off to play mini golf in the sun!

Seeya




Richard the Hamilton bound geotech nerd

December 07, 2004 11:28 AM  

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