My blog posts have been slightly sporadic (and really random) recently and I thought you probably deserved an explanation as too why.
July started with teaching French students, from there I went off on tour with Jim Bailey. I also managed to squeeze in a computer service for one for my friends. That was followed by meetings, filming and plenty of coffee before driving good friends Delirious to the airport and teaching started again. The weekend bought Pete’s wedding and Rosie doing Race for Life (which I’ve already blogged about).
The last few days? Well, 17 July was my birthday, and while it wasn’t a big thing I had a good day celebrating with family. On the 18th Rosie took me over to Brighton to spoil me - and I can honestly say I feel spoilt. The 19th signaled a return to teaching and somehow also managed to fit in helping Rosie’s mum out, setting up the Ford’s wireless internet and joining my fellow Slam leaders for the last Slam ever.
So today, it’s been interesting! I’ve been teaching (again) and had an interesting conversation with the head of IT at Northbrook College and as a result was told to submit my CV as there’s a job in IT support available from the end of August. Then I headed over to pick up the keys for the transit van so I can pick Delirious up from the airport. I also spoke to Tre from onehundredhours and I’m heading off to Soul Survivor’s Momentum festival on Sunday to have a chat with them about some stuff.
And so onto next week. I’m teaching again on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday then I’ve got an interview for the admin job at Arun Community Church. Thursday brings some more contract IT work with LA:UK. Friday should be a day off and Saturday brings another wedding.
I think that’s an update from the world of Dave
It’s perhaps not so odd to think of wedding and running the face as subjects for a blog, after all they kind of go hand in hand. And that’s exactly what my weekend consisted of;
Saturday saw the wedding of Pete and Ali. It was truly joyous and worshipful occasion and I’d like to thank the West’s and the Gray’s for inviting Rosie and me. I’d also like to thank Jon for leading the congregation in a great time for worship and Mr. Dan Lush for making the best man’s speech so memorable. I won’t give you any clues, but maybe click here.
So that takes us to Sunday and race for life. One of the last things Rosie did in Human Biology, before dropping it, was to sign up for race for life. I decided to go along to offer support, so we headed off to the Weald and Downland museum just north of Chichester. The sight of 2000 women (most of whom were wearing lycra) all warming up to a club version of Amarillo was one that will haunt me for long time to come.
The was a common singularity about everyone there, and I’m sure that many people reflected on people they knew who were either fighting, had won, or tragically had lost the battle with cancer. It would be hard to sum up the mood, it was kind of like an out door gig, yet also like a summer fete.
Rosie did it in a time of 59 minutes and 15 seconds which is very respectable.
Yesterday marked two years since Rosie and I started going out with each other and after some reflection, and lots of sleep, I want to declare them good. We’ve had many good times where we’ve laughed so much we’ve nearly cried, the random times where we’ve laughed so much we’ve nearly cried and the harder times where we’ve cried. Through it all we’ve grown closer and more together.
We’ve learnt a lot and have had good friends who have supported us. Of course, we’ve managed to change each other a little bit. I now like programs like Scrubs, 8 Simple Rules, Hope & Faith and Extreme Makeover:Home Edition. And Rosie? Well she now likes cars, technology and almost likes Macs as much as me. So only small changes really.
As Rosie put it on her blog…”I just think it’s really cool that we are as happy as ever and continue to have as much fun”
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