Hi one and all,

Some one said to me this week how are you managing with Al being in Vietnam and I said well it's like missing my right arm, pritty hard but you manage and the old saying of "you don't know what you have got until its gone" caries greater meaning. Enough about me.

Al is going well and has completed a solid week of in country training with three other volunteers and also language studies, that in her words has scrambled her head.

We have managed to skype which is amazing with Al taking the laptop into the street to show the sights and also to hear the traffic move noisely down the street.

The other thing that Al has been working on is finding us a house and so far has looked at seven ranging from being right in town, and one being on Cam Nam Island. Al has sent a few photos and a feature of them all have been lots of tiles and polished concrete floors.

Back at Red Hill, we handed over the keys to Jason and Donna who will be looking after our house and dogs for the next six months and it was the colmination of a big week of packing up and cleaning. So glad that's done and would not have been possible with the help of my mum & dad (Don & Meryl).

Hopefully soon we will be able to send through photos of where we will be living and working so stay posted (blogged)!

Pete