Hospitality and Chaos

Since I got back I’ve actually been feeling a lot more on-the-ball than I expected, which has been wonderful.  I’ve been doing a lot of hosting - helping me feel more settled in, building up relationships and starting some student work:

A pancake party (a week late but nonetheless satisfying)

A student “sleep”over - there was no sleeping involved - we cooked food, played charades, I introduced them to Mafia which went down very well at 4am, finished with a film and they all left about 8am.  It was made more challenging by 2 power cuts and the water being turned off at 10pm and not coming back on again!  Evening and morning photos - some difference in energy levels I think...

Then the next week friends from church came over for lasagne.  And finally I invited the family I stayed with in 2013 over for dinner.  I made very English pie and mash with gravy, and then we had some very tactical games of uno!  It was lovely to be able to thank them in this way.