The weekend away was great for a variety of reasons.
If you are interested in the end of year review the photos can be seen in y Flikr album – trainee priests showing their performing talents.

Highlights of the weekend:
as ever being with friends
drinking with friends
eating with friends
laughing with friends
my friends at SEITE are just great people who I count it as a privilege to spend time with

Lowlights
missing the family
missing friends that were not there
a talk I just did not ‘get’ on Friday evening
saying bye to friends I may not see again

Tonight was my last SEITE night in Chatham as for family reasons I need to stop going out on Monday nights – so from September I will be joining my Southwark friends on a Tuesday evening instead. I’m quite looking forward to that.

the end of another academic year.
assignments handed in.
marks waited for,
prayers for that magic minimum of 40%!

The end of the second year leaves a sobering thought. In 12 months time this will all be ending for me, and something new will be starting. This will sound weird, but its only just starting to sink in that this course has been life changing and that, at the end, my life is possibly never going to be the same again. Now that does start to scare me a little. That’s a lie – it starts to scare me a lot!

Getting home tonight was odd – there was nothing to do for SEITE, nothing to read, nothing to think about writing and so I did this really odd thing … I sat down with a real ale(a great fathers day present!)and waited for Sarah to come in from the youth group and then we had a chat.

Feels weirdly strange to be back and start to be a human living in the house rather than a work and essay machine which is what I have felt like.