Dear friends,

For the next seven months in Derby, I am gonna live with the Kings family, Stephen, Rachel and their two little boys, Matthew and Daniel. Though moving around is such a nuisance, I have been looking forward to this day for ages. Because A I am living much much closer to the church I am working at now, B I am COMPLETELY fending for myself, which is exactly what I need. The days of starvation have finally come to an end, Praise the Lord !!!!!!!!!!!!!! C most of the friends that I can really relate to are living in the neighborhood, Peter and Angela, a retired couple who have been devoted to taking care of Careforce workers for years, but they only host boys coz themselves have four boys. My pastoral carer, George and Ros are living just down the corner. Richard and Christine used to live in China for seven years and I got to know them at the Chinese Christian Fellowship. Now we happen to live on the same side of the road. I can even play basketball at their back yard with the boys. D though it’s not broadband and I have only get online after 10;15pm, now I can at least have access to internet by dialing up, which is extremely expensive. It should be okay just checking up email. So I am sorry but don’t expect me to chat on msn for long.

I will go back to work tomorrow and also have to start the long process of visa application for this voluntary work, as I am still on my student visa which is gonna run out by the end of the month. So it will be great if you could just pray for me about that.

My new address now is 32 Askerfield Avenue, Allestree, DE22 2SU, Derby, UK. Tel 00441332553145. It’d be great to hear from you. Likewise, it’d be equally great if you could just send me your address and contact numbers. I’d love to stay in touch with each one of you and keep you posted.

With love,

Shilin