Typical isn’t it? You get a week off, and you’re ill! Always happens. Felt it coming on Monday and it gradually got me throughout the week but I carried on anyway! Bit of a cold, cough, aching, tired etc. But didn’t stop me from having a good holiday. Really good to go to Jasmine’s new house and spend some time with her and her two lovely boys Joseph and Samuel. They are so cute! Also got to see my nan and spend time with Sarah and the girls and boy! We went to Colchester Zoo on Friday – Maddie and Emi absolutely loved it. Their best bit being the white ‘iger’ and feeding the ‘raffes’ (giraffes!). We went out for lunch on Saturday for an early Mother’s Day (sorry, Mothering Sunday as Mum prefers it!) as we left for Scotland at 8.30 Sunday morning. It was good to be home and enjoy Mum’s cooking and looking after me, and Dad’s ability to totally wind me up (I don’t miss that too much!).

So we spent most of yesterday travelling up to Duns and going along to a launch service for the Peace Week in the evening. We are staying just down the road from the school, Me and Becca with host and everyone else in a holiday house that they own!

We got into Berwickshire High School at 8am for a good set up and then spent the day taking 50minute assemblies for S1-S4. As I’m still not 100% we had to change the initial plan to not include any drama so I spent the day on tech! The assemblies went really well, different responses from each year group but all seemed positive. Many of the S3s and S4s remembered the last Christian Focus Week 2 years ago which Taste took part in, so were singing ‘Sitting on the Fence’ before we were! We are working with Esther (who we worked with in Hawick) and Mark (who we met in Hawick) and others from the local churches and Berwickshire Christian Youth Trust  are taking some other lessons as part of the Peace Week.

Tomorrow we have a P7 concert, an S1 lesson, an S2 lesson and a Support Base lesson.

Our gig is Thursday Night 6.30pm-8.30pm.

We would love your prayers!! Myself and Becca are still feeling poorly so please pray for us and that everyone else stays healthy, pray for energy, enthusiasm and most of all pray for the young people we will meet over the next few days.

Tags: Berwickshire Christian Youth Trust, Berwickshire High School, Christian Focus Week, Colchester Zoo, Duns, Scripture Union Scotland