Up and downs

The last days have been full of up and downs. I feel frustrated about things I wanted to do better and without any mistakes. It's very hard when at work I can't fully understand the patients specially when they speak very fast and with a different accent. I feel very excited as well about new things I'm learning and every little step I'm taking forward. Today I did my first Medicine Use Review alone!! ( this is a service pharmacies offer to know how patients are getting on with their medicines and answer any queries they might have)
These feelings remind me again that the strength to go and to live and to work does not come from my own abilities but from the One that can make the work of my hands bear fruit like our back garden cherry is!
Yes, it looks like we're going to  have a harvest! :)

Today

right living and right speaking

"To be a witness for God is to be a living sign of God's presence in the world.  What we live is more important than what we say, because the right way of living always leads to the right way of speaking.   When we forgive our neighbours from our hearts, our hearts will speak forgiving words.  When we are grateful, we will speak grateful words, and when we are hopeful and joyful, we will speak hopeful and joyful words.

When our words come too soon and we are not yet living what we are saying, we easily give double messages.  Giving double messages - one with our words and another with our actions - makes us hypocrites.   May our lives give us the right words and may our words lead us to the right life."  Henri Nouwen

Early mornings

I was already cycling to the train station by 6.10am today. Just wishing I could keep my eyes opened while my legs were moving! How painful such early morning are!
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Hoje pelas 6h10 já estava eu na minha bicicleta em direcção à estação de comboio. Só desejava manter os olhos abertos enquanto as minhas pernas mexiam! Que dor ter que acordar tão cedo! 

Today gray day

It's raining and it's cold...very cold. I had forgotten the feeling of cycling with the rain against my face, my hands hurting with the cold and my feet completely wet. 

Oh well, I could keep complaining but these are just small details in life. After all if it didn't rain, this place wouldn't be so beautiful. 

This gray and cold day helped me to be thankful for the community God has brought me into back again, thankful for friends and people who care about me and are interested in my life. I am thankful for the smiles, hugs, words, holding a little baby, a warm and cosy sofa and a cup of tea in a place that's still so familiar...:) The Sun might not be shining, but these little things brought it into my day! 

Today was Jubilee Sunday - Queen Elizabeth II has been reigning for 60 years!

Here are some of her words that we also read at church today: 

"God sent into the world a unique person - neither a philosopher nor a general, important though they are, but a Saviour, with power to forgive. 

Forgiveness lies at the heart of Christian faith. It can heal broken families, it can restore friendships and it can reconcile divided communities. In it in forgiveness that we feel the power of God's love" 

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Por aqui chove e faz frio...muito frio. Já me tinha esquecido de como era andar de bicicleta com a chuva a bater-me na cara, as mãos a doer com frio e os pés completamente molhados. 

Bem, podia continuar a reclamar mas isto são só pequenos detalhes da vida. Afinal se não chovesse, este sítio não seria tão bonito! Por outro lado, este dia cizento e frio fez-me agradecer a Deus pela comunidade que tenho à minha volta, pelos amigos e pessoas que se interessam e preocupam comigo. Estou grata pelos sorrisos, abraços, segurar um bébé, f  palavras, um sofá quentinho e chá num lugar que não deixou de me ser familiar...:) O Sol pode não ter brilhado hoje, mas estas pequeninas coisas trouxeram-no ao  meu dia!

Hoje foi um domingo muito especial - a rainha completou 60 anos de reinado.  

some adventures and good things in the last days

the sun has been shining!
i've got lost in my way (I thought I knew this city very well but there are still many streets to explore)
afternoon tea today with a friend sitting on a mat outside in her garden
went to the job centre to get my NI number and it was very fast, no queues
being full of oil from my bike and mosquitoes after a long cycling ( not so good! )
visiting my 91 years old wee friend at the hospital and laughing with her - she's better and she has still her sense of humour!
ending the day with a lovely meal cooked by my housemates and finishing the evening with an enormous bonfire in our garden and eating marshmallows
having a nice shower after all the bike oil, mosquitoes and smoke from the bonfire!
it's good to be back and it's good to be on holidays, on Thursday hard work starts!!


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tem sol tem estado a brilhar!
perdi-me no meu caminho ( pensava eu que conhecia a cidade muito bem, mas ainda há muitas ruas para explorar)
cházinho hoje à tarde com uma amiga no jardim dela!
fui ao Job centre para tratar do meu NI number e foi tudo muito rápido, sem filas
ficar cheia de óleo da corrente e de mosquitos depois de andar um bom bocado de bicicleta ( não tão bom!)
visitar a minha querida amiga de 91 anos e rirmos juntas - ela está melhor e não perdeu o seu sentido de humor!
acabar o dia com um jantar delicioso preparado pelos meus colegas de casa e acabar a noite a fazer uma fogueira enorme no nosso jardim e comer marshmallows
tomar um bom banho, depois de todo o óleo, mosquitos e fumo da fogueira!
é bom estar de volta e é bom estar de férias, na quinta-feira trabalho a sério começa!!

from my window...

I see our beautiful back garden. I've finally arrived to Cambridge. I'm settling in my new house and getting to know my new housemates. Today it was such nice our weather and we went out to garden for dinner again.

Thankful for being back to this city I love and for friends, old and new ones :) 


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Da minha janela...eu vejo o nosso lindo jardim. Finalmente, cheguei a Cambridge. Estou a adpatar-me à minha nova casa e a conhecer os meus novos colegas de casa. Hoje esteve um tempo tão bom e acabámos por jantar novamente cá fora no jardim. 


Agradecida por estar de volta à cidade de que  tanto gosto e pelos amigos, os velhos e os novos :)