Singapore!

Singapore:

I had the opportunity to go to Singapore for a few days break with Pauline. It was a blessing in two ways! Firstly, it was a nice break to recharge batteries ready for my last 2 months at Ruel. Secondly, I made a mistake when booking my flights which meant I would have to renew my visa in order to stay for one more day! At a cost of £60! To avoid this I could leave the country for just one day and therefore my visa would restart and cover that last day! The flight to Singapore was just $12 US!!! Couldnt pass on that opportunity!!!!

Singapore was such an amazing country and so contrasting to the Philippines! Everywhere was clean, immaculate - no need for my hand gel there! Their main source of income on the island is tourism and we made the most of it! I really would recommend to anyone a visit to Singapore, especially the night zoo and Sentosa Island! 

In addition to the sight seeing I also got the chance to visit Joseph Prince's church, a church of 20,000!! Admittedly, that is over 4 sevices but still the fact was that people were queuing for hours prior to the service just to get a seat in the main auditorium instead of sitting in one of the 3 overflow rooms! Had we not be chance met friends of the people we were staying with we would not have had a seat even though we were there an hour early! God always makes a way!! 

I had read Joseph Prince's book 'Destined to Reign' recommended by my Mum and it was an inspirational book. I learnt a lot through the book about Gods grace and the freedom in which I live. So I was so excited to be able to visit his church and hear him! He spoke again on the topic of grace and it was so encouraging. I really recommend if you haven't read his book read it you will be blessed!

On returning to Ruel I have been back into teaching and starting to prepare for my successor! It is scary to think I am already having to make preparation for my leaving!!! I really missed the children while I was in Singapore so it will be even harder leaving when I know I will not be back at least not for a long while and by then they will be gone!!! We have been learning teen numbers (always a hard one!) and I have been so amazed at how quick they have picked it up! They are not only recognising all numbers to 20 but also now starting to read words and write short captions! We have so much fun everyday having a class of 3 is a dream!!! It is going to be hard to leave and come back! How did I ever cope with 30!!!!! 

I am on the move again and this weekend I will be moving house and living with Jason and Theresa, Maiya, Ayda and Hannah, the Canadian family. I am really looking forward to this as I spend most of my time there anyway! They have a great source of Tetley tea!!! At least enough to last for my last 7 weeks!