Been back in Portsmouth a few days and in all honesty haven’t had much time to blog at all, sorry!
Moved back Saturday with help from Mum, Dad, Kita and Frankie. Kita and Dad re-arranged my room, I’ll take some photo’s once it’s all finished and in place, which created a surprising amount of space! It’s quite a nice room actually, has an annoying bump on the ground but other than that it’s pretty great. Also met up with some friends from the IoW (Isle of Wight), Eddie & Teresa which was great and had lunch in Gunwarf Quays.
Sunday, I somehow got up about 4:30 for a cracking Grand Prix. Went back to bed then get up about 9:30 and made it to King's for the morning meeting. In all honesty I would have probably just gone for the evening service but Kita was down and really wanted to make it as she was getting on a train at 6:30 :’( It was good and I felt at ‘home’, met a few people whom I hadn’t seen for months and really just enjoyed the catch-up.
Sunday afternoon, met up at Blade’s new house to meet the ‘Freshers’ who had met him through Fusion. I met up with a girl who I’d already exchanged email address’ with at Soul Survivor over the summer and lot’s of others, actually now I think about it there did seem to be a lot of new faces, which can surely only be a good thing for the Uni.
Sunday evening, :’(. Said goodbye to Kita, was hard actually, I think I was possibly more teary than her. We’d spent 16-17 weeks together not dissimilar to before I first came to Portsmouth. It was hard to see her leave on the train I’ll be honest but encouraging at the same time. Last year was a huge test of our relationship and it lasted, it survived and it strengthened. I’m getting a stronger feeling day after day that it really will work in every sense. 
Sunday evening continued, turned up at King's later, but understandably late for the evening service. Following the service a fairly large group of us students went to a local pub and exchanged names, numbers, MSN etc and two Sarah’s even came back to 31 Stansted Rd to watch a movie. There are plans for us to meet up on Wednesday already which is all good. I think we’re helping a lot of the Freshers feel more comfortable in this strange new place and I must admit I’m enjoying helping them get their feet in Portsmouth.
Monday I got a new toy, but that’s for another post :P. Also Ben, Ruth and I bumped into some Mormons which needless to say started some interesting theological conversation but that’s worth a post on it’s own, besides this one is too long already!
Hope everyone back home (Oxford etc) is ok, thank you all for a great summer, see you soon!
Dan
3rd October 2007
12:48 pm
“I think I was possibly more teary than her.”
if that happened with ben thered be a puddle round him :S :P