January in Cambridge

My dear Friends
I don't know how January is with you but it has started sleeting again here. Treacherous to walk in, so people are keeping to the shopping arcades in town. I don't normally frequent them, but nipped in here to keep warm (I still have a nasty cough)and to use the library facilities. We have a completley refurbished public library in the arcade and it's great to use.

Next Monday night I start beginners Spanish classes. I was inspired to do so by some meetings I had with a Spanish lady, Mercedes, last summer. Mercedes gave me some Spanish lessons in exchange for some English lessons and it was more than a fair exchange. Mercedes lives with her family in Santiago de Compostella, a famous pilgrimage site, which covers a proportion of France as well as Northern spain. She has invited me over there one day. She says that if I come, I should also travel to Fatima, in Portugal, again another famous pilgrimage site and one where the Virgin Mary(through intermediaries) spoke of Peace and Reconciliation.

But my first trip this year, inshaallah, will hopefully be to Provence, to the ancient town of Nimes, where I have a friend. I hope this will take place in April, when the weather is at its best.(Although there is still the possibility of the Mistral wind.)

So! Lots to look forward to in these miserable days, I wish the same for you too.

Shalom from
Sister Gila