Final evening meal

We showed our hosts a slide show of our photos before going out with Astrit, Emily, Berti, Hannah, Skelzen and Claudi for a final meal at Le Peshat our favourite restaurant – The steaks are massive! I know that Martha is going to miss Emily so much!
1/6 10pm Eddie

Radoniqi Lake

We gave the head teacher a lift most of the way back to his home and he mentioned they did not have much sports equipment. Jake gave him an impromptu gift of his football (one less thing to pack tomorrow!). We drove to the lake which is the main reservoir for the area and it was very beautiful for a picnic. Unlike UK reservoirs there is no boating of swimming allowed. We saw lots of lizards and bugs as we walked through the trees. We also drove past a big KFOR base (Italian) with its own runway and a house which still has bullet holes in it 11 years on from the war.
1/6 4pm Eddie

Visit to Kralan School

After a short Prayer meeting at Eternity Church we headed towards Pristina for a few miles and then up into a hill village. Their view was stunning and we were warmly welcomed at the village school. During the war there were 80 students and 50 of them lost their fathers. The conflict was particularly great here. The unemployment is very great here. It was a lovely happy school and we spent some time with the Head Teacher before meeting a class of the older pupils. We then went into the grounds of the school and played some volleyball. Some of the teachers joined in and it got very competitive – great fun. Jake and Sam presented the last of the letters and pictures from the Orchard Schools and we also gave the Director a gift of stationary. Smile are planning a summer holiday club at this school this year.
1/6 1pm Eddie

Youth meeting

We shared in our last youth meeting. We have been befriended by some lovely young people and t was a bit sad to think this was our last meeting during our stay. I think Martha, Jake and Sam are going to be missed by them also.
31/5 10pm Eddie

Girls Brigade at Rugove

We went back tonight to the Girls Brigade meeting we went to last Monday. Martha and I organised some games and craft and Martha told them the story of Noah. It was good fun and at the end of the evening it was funny to see all the girls pile into the pastor’s van as he dropped them all off at various places in the village. I love this country.!
It is good to see a room full of girls, many girls are not allowed out as they have to stay at home to do chores, to be available to help with the running of the home.
31/5 7pm Alison

FIlmed Interview

Emily Morina from Smile filmed an interview with us. We spoke of why we had come here, what we had done and what we have learned. WE managed it in one take!
31/5 3pm Eddie