It's nice to be back

[Mon 12 Dec 05 1400 (update until sunday night)]

When we got back from Hastings (with diversions on the way) on Saturday night, I wanted to get a phone (well, only the SIM card actually) and had heard that the Warehouse sold them. So off we went; Joy got me to drive and I was a bit rusty at first. As it turns out the Warehouse only sells Telecom phones (which don't have SIM cards) so we couldn't get one from there. It felt good to be driving again. Sunday morning I went over to Feilding to go to church where I grew up. It was strange to see all the familiar faces again; and sad to only not recognize a few people. I quickly got used to the standard questions, and formulated some standard responses. There was no-one from my group of friends there. I learnt (from talking to parents of my friends) that Lorelle was going to have a little talk about her year with Y One after a pot-luck tea at 5pm. So I decided that I'd come back for that. I then drove back to Palmy and had lunch with Joy and Anna. We went shopping for the week and food is expensive over here. There were more of my friends at the pot-luck tea, but still not everyone. I guess my hopes were too high. It was nice to catch up with those who were there all the same. Afterwards, as Relle and Matt were busy doing some other thing, I hijacked Hayden and we went visiting people. Ace wasn't home, nor was Jenna, but Little Jen's parents were and they told us she was at work (and where that was). So off we went. She got a _real_ big shock to see me as I don't think she knew I was coming back to NZ yet. When I got back to Palmy, Anna and Julz came over (to see Joy), and we went to a café. There I saw Rose (from MYO) and I didn't expect her to recognize or remember me, funnily enough nor did she although we both did. I asked some questions about Jenna and I think we both realised we knew each other. I got her number, but as I didn't have a phone yet (see above) I couldn't give her mine. Oh yeah, I also fixed the printer and other various computer stuff for Joy.