Back to work

My dear Friends

After my little nervous breakdown its back to work. I have started checking the manuscript that I have done so far on the second part of my memoirs, 'With open shirt and tinkling guitar.' I am about to give the 25,000 or so words I have written to a close friend to read and make comments. I am not as confident with this manuscript as the last one, 'The Moving Swan,' as I don't think it flows as well, as I have interspersed the narrative with descriptions of the mission and so on. But I intend to make a proper book out of it in the end.

As for normal daily life, well Cambridge is very cold and it s back to scarves, gloves and woolly hats. But its a beautiful town and sometimes looks its best in the frost. Yesterday I went to the university to the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies to watch a film in Hebrew. With subtitles in English of course! It was a documentary centred round a language class in basic Hebrew for 'Olem Chadashim,' New Immigrants and followed closely the lives of about five people in the class.

They were from all different backgrounds: Chinese, Russian, Peruvian and elsewhere. The stories were very poignant as was the story of the teacher herself who was separated from her husband with a small child and was having problems. We followed the class in their highs and lows, their struggles and their successes; there were even clips of them dancing for joy!

Tonight I am going to Cambourne to the little group of Christians I spoke to about the Jewish festivals in October. Thery are having three meditations for Advent, which I wil speak about on the next Blog. In the meantime

Happy Advent
Shalom from
Sister Gila