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| The Bride & Groom |
It’s been a bit quiet on the blog front from us for a while
as we’ve been away on our big trip down under. While we don’t normally write
about holidays on our blog, this one was a bit special. For those of you who
don’t know Dan’s sister emigrated to Australia in 2008. She has lived in Sydney
ever since, she has also become an Australian citizen and last month she got
married to her Australian fiancé. So, for the first time we were able to travel
down under and enjoy her wedding. Becky was a bridesmaid and Sam & Mim were
page boy and flower girl.
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| Flower Girl & Page Boy |
In addition to the wedding our other main highlight of the
trip was being reunited with many former KISC folk. KISC has staff from all
over the world, but Australia has consistently been a major recruiting ground
for staff for KISC and so we have many former staff spread across the country.
You may remember the “Day of 5” blog from a few years back when God came through
on providing 5 teachers urgently needed all in one day – all of these were
Australian and some of them we were able to meet up with while we were there.
While we were in Sydney we attended a KISC Sydney reunion
with 3 other couples all of whom had been at KISC in some form (including as
parents) and another day we met with another couple who had both taught at KISC and got to meet there two children who had been born since. Then we went to Brisbane
for a week to stay with the former Secondary Principal who Dan had worked
closely with for several years, and her family. We were able to meet up with
their 4 children, all of whom were former KISC students, and 2 Dan had taught,
as well as 2 other former teachers. In all we had 6 current or former teachers
and 5 current or former students (including one who was both a former student
and teacher!).
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| KISC Brisbane Reunion |
It was great meeting up, sharing stories and being
reunited with good friends, most of whom we hadn’t seen since they had left
KISC, which in some cases was 4 years ago. It was another reminder for us about
the importance and the strength of the KISC community, and the bonds that are
forged while at KISC are not easily broken. That is a feature of this
lifestyle, we go deep in relationships quick, we have to say goodbye often, but
we are left with friends all over the world.
