Thursday, May 25, 2006

Pinch me

I am really enjoying my new job. It is day four beginning this morning and I'm looking forward to each day for far.

Some of you know I really enjoy a trip to the museum or art gallery. Now I work for one.

Friday, May 19, 2006

The end of an Era

Today is my last day working for Sheffield Hallam University Faculty of Organisation and Management as at the Languages Learning Support Technician.

I have been here nearly a year. I have enjoyed my job and learn a lot. Hopefully I have contributed in a positive way. I will miss many of the people I have worked with. I will miss the students. I will miss seeing the first skyscraper in Sheffield being built out my office window.

SHU (Sheffield Hallam University), is an interesting place. Always reforming, restructuring and rebuilding growing beyond it's capacity. With roughly 28,000 students and nearly 3,000 staff and large portions of the city real estate devoted to it you can image things can move by fits and starts.

Still SHU can be a relaxing, warm, friendly environment with a great mix of people from all walks of life, points of view and parts of the world.

I will miss it.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

100 posts

This is my 100th post!

Let me use it to tell you about this weekends trip to Belgium with Samuel and meeting up with a girl from America there called Kara.

Samuel, Fee, and I will leave Friday after work to sleep in Luton at Brian Jose house. Brian is with Radstock a mission group which networks churches doing mission. Brian is a Canadian and has helped Lyssa and I on a number of occasions particularly 5 years ago with in formation on how to get a visa with Crowded House and cultural transition and such.

Early Saturday Morning we will go to Stansted airport to fly to Eindhoven about an hours drive from Bree where Kara, Samuel and I will spend the day with Martin and Bianca Goedhart. Fee is staying down south I think to see her sister and Kara is meeting us in Einhoven with a car to take us to Bree.

About 2:00 we will all go to a wedding in Lommel of a couple from Bianca, Martin and Sanne's church.

In the evening Martin will take us for a walk into Bree for a drink while Binca has a youth meeting.

About 9:00 PM we will arrive at Dr. Marcel Leneart's. Here we will sleep after taslking with Hannah, Magada, and the Dr.

Sunday morning we will attend the church meeting with the Lenearts in Peer.

Sunday afternoon we will meet with Dr. Lenaert, Richard Haverkamp, and Hank Gellink to talk about what has been happening with church planting in Belgium.

About 5:00 PM Samuel and I will have to leave Peer to get back to the airport in Eindhoven for a flight out at 19:25 departure.

ITINERARY/RECEIPT - All times are local.

From London Stansted(STN) to Eindhoven(EIN) Sat, 06May06 Flight FR9271
Depart STN at 07:00 and arrive EIN at 09:00

From Eindhoven(EIN) to London Stansted(STN) Sun, 07May06 Flight FR9274
Depart EIN at 19:25 and arrive STN at 19:30

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

A new job

I am happy to announce that I have a new job with Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust as the Audio Visual Technician. I will be based in the £17 New Weston Park Museum as I work with all of the Galleries and Museums in the trust in Sheffield. I am very excited to be part of the opening of the new Weston Park museum. (Formerly the City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery)

I am sad to leave Sheffield Hallam University's Langauges and Technical peoples. I have made a lot of friends here and have enjoyed my job. I do hope they find someone soon to replace me for the sake of the languages and technical peoples.

Also I will miss the students who I have worked with in the LLRC.