Hello all, i hope you're doing well and enjoying your chilly English weather. I would rub it in a bit more, but the fact that i'm returning in two weeks and it won't have got much warmer by then stops that a little.

This week has been really good. We went on retreat to Savane, a beautiful desert-island idylic place from tuesday to thursday. It was really good spending some time in such a beautiful place thinking about going home and our last couple of weeks here. It was really helpful. The highlight of the time for me was getting up hideously early on the thursday morning to watch the sunrise, sitting on the beach. It was SO beautiful. As i'm sure you can imagine, i took many, many photos!

Saturday to sunday we went to Gorongosa, which is about a four hour bus ride away. we went to visit a sister church, and had a really good time seeing a different part of Moz (with mountains! Well...very big hills, really) and getting to know some new people. We were asked to say something 3 times in the church service as well as present a song, which didn't quite compare to the one that the youth in the church presented afterwards!

They're the two main things that have really happened this week.

I can't believe that it's only two weeks till i get home. I'm really excited for seeing family and friends again, and for some of the luxuries i've missed, but i think i will find being back very odd, settling back into a different culture again! And the more i think about leaving here, the sadder i get. I really hope that i'll be able to come back to Moz sometime!

Lots of love, Sar xx