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Newsletter Two

Date: Monday 16 June 2003.

Spotted at Heathrow airport, down a corridor to the toilets:

I've been doing a lot of driving recently. Monday and Tuesday (9 & 10 June) saw a couple more trips to the camp site to pick up kids on one day then to pick up the cooks and their equipment on the following day.

On that 2nd trip I got a flat tyre on the way to the camp site thanks to a leaking valve stem. Several bulges in the sidewall of the tyre makes us think people have been hitting potholes at high speed. Buying a new tyre in Timisoara later that day took over an hour, plus more time to fit it and change the valve stem somewhere else. After all that we still needed to deliver the cooks to their home city several hours away on the other side of Timisoara from the camps.

Leaving Timisoara for the second time that day (well after 5pm) the temperature at the railway station was 39°C. I figure with it being a van, diesel, the right side of the road, potholes, the heat, etc, it's better to take it carefully, so I eventually got home at about 2:40am Wednesday morning.

On Thursday I was up at 5am to be out the door at 5:45am to pick up people and get to Jimbolia. Back home more than 14 hours later after a hard day digging, driving and drinking (water and a bit of pineapple juice). The four and a half or so litres I drunk that day doesn't seem to be enough.

I had a slightly more restful day on Friday, as it included a birthday pool party for two of the girls from the Mana Ministries Girls' House. Apart from the water being rather green and us being kicked out before it got particularly late we had a great time.

The American team here for the recent camp has just left. On one of their trips into the city one of the girls in the team was sitting on the footpath taking a rest when a woman came up to her and tried to give her money. She must have looked too much like a begger, and really confused the woman when she refused to take accept the money. The woman gave the money to the "genuine" begger next to her.

Oh yeah, about that pool party. I got some great photos...

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Ian.
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- Tshirt worn by a 6? year old girl walking with her little sister past the Day Centre.

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