Chris Maclay
Ghana

The wanderer returns safely

Aircraft at HeathrowSome of you may have noticed that there was a missing week in the email diary.

I have been plotting for about 4 weeks to surprise the family with an early return. I realised some time ago that all the students would be travelling to their home towns for the election (something rather christmassy about that). So, it worked out that I would be sitting at the college for something like 6 days with all the students away. By the time they got back I would only have about 4 days before leaving. So, I decided to leave a week early.

It was hard work not telling the family until the last minute, but I did give them 36 hours notice. They were there to greet me and my wooden giraffes at Heathrow (having got up at 4.30 am).

So, here I am back in the cold UK, already feeling very churlish about having complained of heat in Ghana. Not quite ready yet to stand back from the experience and make total sense of it, but very grateful to the generosity of all I met who made the stay so rich and beneficial. Whoops!! That reminds me to go and take one of those 'orrible anti-malarials....

Thanks very much for all the prayers and support for both myself and the family. We felt very 'carried' by God.

Chris

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