Friday 18th April - E-mail

Friday the 18th of April
I went for email again. I had lost some blog I had written because I saved it in a funny place and wanted to make sure it got to Amaudo UK quickly. There is already almost a weeklong delay between when the event happens and when I am free to look for a vehicle to join to go into town with the laptop to be able to send it. You would not believe how much of a headache email really is because it is so easy turning on your computer on the other end and getting a high speed broadband connection putting on the kettle and sitting in a comfortable chair. At my end I have to leave the house at half 7 or 8ish to drive for one and a half hours along some pretty frightful roads scattered with pot holes and dangerous drivers. Once in the internet café you realise that there is no need to call it a café as there is nowhere to buy drinks or food. The internet consists of two rooms one quite large one with rows and rows of pc’s and another small cupboard with a fan where people that have laptops are able to plug them in and perch on some precarious looking chairs. There are two complete chairs in that room. They have very small seats and look like they were made for children. I like to sit on them and they are mostly kept free, I assume this is because big men do not trust them to carry their weight. I finished my email pretty fast and was feeling hungry. Martha is trying to sort out getting her Masters organised so needed to spend quite lot of time working. Something had angered the generator so it was complaining rather noisily. When V/Rev Timothy dropped in to check on progress, I asked him to take me with him so I could have a chance to pick some food before coming back to Martha. I wanted to go to Winners Supermarket because I know they sell cherry jam and Pringles. He was on his way to go and meet a manager of Amaudo called Benson to talk about his induction ceremony to celebrate becoming a Very Reverend. This means he has been a Reverend for 10 years. The induction is an official institution and a service of empowerment and is usually conducted by the Bishop to authenticate your appointment as a presbyter. During in the service gifts and financial support is given to the minister to enable him to execute a project. Some will use this money to buy a car and others will try and build their family house… you can tell I have had to be told this quite a few times over because its not something I am use to having to understand.

Anyway the purpose of the visit became obscured because Benson was more interested on how this small girl had got out of England, come to Amaudo, and was now sitting in his office.