Fishing, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations

It was quite a special week for me. I got to fish in the sea in quite an old school way. It was quite an experience right from the start. We met at 3:15am and drove down the coast. We got on the boat in darkness and headed out to sea. With dolphins, seals and a whale swimming right next to the boat almost with in reach at times it was quite an eye opening start to the day. I don't think I've ever seen such beauty. The sea with the first sparks of sunlight coming on it, if I didn't see it and photograph it myself I wouldn't believe it was real. As the sun rose we picked a few spots to start fishing.

There were about 15 of us in the boat. We cut our own bait even caught some of my own bait; we fished with just a line and a hook. I caught 12 fish which I thought was rather funny, I used two for bait so I ended up taking 10 home.

I celebrated thanksgiving on accident. We were going out to dinner and happened to come to a place that was only serving American style Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, ham veges and even pumpkin pie! It was great. I am so grateful to be here and experience so many new things and be involved in so many great projects.

Ursula, Byron and I had a Bible study this week which was nice and hopefully we'll keep up with it. Byron is excited to get involved with helping other youth recover from drug addiction and wants to get moving on that soon. Perhaps our soccer project can coincide with this. I want to get that moving soon.

The youth leader, 20 years old, has decided to study to become a pastor. He'll be studying at the University for the next two years, so he's not sure how much he'll be able to be involved with the youth. While it is sad to see him leave the group, we're excited for what the future has for him.

I watched the movie The Second Chance this week, twice. It is quite powerful and I strongly suggest any and all to watch it and the special features as well!

I got some excellent gifts from my sister Ann's friend that was in Cape Town this week for a wedding. Thank you for the early Christmas, I love it!

Tonight I'm heading to celebrate TLC's Christmas party which was sponsored by Dwight Wyse (thanks again!). It should be fun, Colleen is quite excited about it. I went to her earlier this week and saw her new office. It is located on a police stations campus. This has been tremendous for her because she's been able to minister to the youth, the police and also restore youth trust and comfort with the policemen that come and play with this kids. All of this has been great and the added security doesn't hurt either. I may help her with her project if I end up staying in CT next year.

Happy belated Thanksgiving and happy early Christmas!