15-May-2007. Tuesday

Where do we belong? Are we the Kleczkowskis from Poland or the Kleczkowskis from England? In England we're "from Poland" in Poland we're "from England". Once again I am reminded of how our true citizenship is in Heaven... that we're just Pilgrims on this earth. We don't keep Polish 'holidays' because we're not in Poland. We don't keep English 'holidays' because we're not English. I guess we keep 'heavenly holidays'-- Christmas, Easter...

What's our summer going to be like? Will it be split into going to Poland, then coming back and moving? Are we going to have any time to actually relax? How will we take all the good-byes? If our church throws us a "good-bye party" like we have had in the past for others, I'm gonna faint... serious. if we have to stand up there up front, and have the whole church sing "God Be With You Till We Meet Again"... whatever. We shall see... :) :/

It HAS been 4 days since I wrote last... :) :)

'Night to all!!!

11-May-2007. Friday

Foolish, foolish, foolish. I feel foolish. I get upset with people who don't update their web pages often, and here I am, brazen person, haven't written for like... over a month! Let's see... where or what can I shift the blame onto?! :) I hardly know where to start...

Life is going so-so, right now. I have been very busy with school-work, and stressin' out about everything, anything, and nothing. Ok, so maybe it isn't that bad. One of the things that gets me badly sometimes, is thinking about having to move in September. Leave everything and everyone. But God has these plans for us, and when I always think what it would be like to go off on a mission somewhere far away, and I feel like telling myself now--Dude! It's only to Scotland!!! Not like Africa or something! When it comes to it...

Right now I'm irritated. The Interner is awfully slow, and keeps not wanting--and I WAS going to say that nothing is working, when it started... oh well. I don't really know what else to inform my readers (if any...). Church is going good, oh! Can't believe I forgot! Our church's name changed! It is now: Lighthouse. The moto is: The light that leads to life. For those who don't know, it was "Ely Christian Fellowship" (ECF). I kinda like it, although I keep wanting to call it 'ECF', instead of 'Lighthouse', and it's not THE Lighthouse, as our pastors informed us last wk! There is a visiting speaker from Folkestone, P.Robert Maasbach, coming on the 27th May, in the evening, to church. I REALLY hope at least some of us (inc.me!!) will go. We'll have to see, but I really hope we do!!! :-) :-)

Had a violin lesson today... My friend Maria came last night, we talked for a while, and she left about 9:30 this morning. They had a funeral in the family today.

Weather-wise, it's bizarre. Like a couple weeks ago, it was hot, lovely and such, now it's cold, windy and rainy. But we didn't have almost any rain for over a month!

Ok, I really hope I WILL write here again soon...

03-April-2007. Tuesday

Ok, maybe I should write here... :) :) The ordination. It went really well. In the auditorium there were about 350 people. The clapping was kind of deafening, but awesome!! If the church grows to this size, it's going to be great!! The ceremony was conducted by P.Tony Cornell and P. Robert Maasbach... and--Giles and Rosilyn Cornell are now our pastors! Mom and I were at church just under 10 hrs, working a lot, but also having a wonderful time... we along with Troy and April Basnett were the last ones to leave, at about 7:40 pm or so. So many visitors, so many visiting pastors... it was great. I took heaps of photographs afterwards, but never took any photo of the kitchen tent or anything. How THAT happened, I have no idea. Bother. Heaps of photos of the service, pastors, etc... :/

Ok, next news. We're moving to Scotland. In September. I really have no idea how we will leave this church and everything. Especially church. It's going to be hard, but God has pomised to never leave us nor forsake us!

The stomach bug is here again! It's the 3rd time this year!!! Don't know what the matter is with us this year. We don't have these colds and flu that we had in previous yrs, but the stomach bug now! This week is going to be extra busy. Tomorrow we're supposed to have Lifegroup here, and I'm supposed to be playing the violin. Thursday it's the orchestra concert, Friday is Good Friday, not sure what exactly we're going to be doing, but I'm sure that on Fri. and Sat. we will be baking and cleaning a lot. I'd like to go to the march of silent witnesses on Fri. We'll see. Then on Sunday will be Easter Sunday! YES!!! I love that day!

Sincerely signing off.

27-March-2007 Tuesday

Just when I'm relieved to have all the paperwork sent in for my exams, I get an email from National Extention College saying I MUST send out all these papers, that I have to download from the Internet. Just when I'm in the middle of filling them out, I see that I don't know what to fill in, in one of the places, so I contact my tutor, who informs me this is a huge, right mess. He doesn't know if I have to send it all out... My Biology tutor, on the other hand, tell me not to panic, but tell me exactly what I have to write! Paperwork... guess I have tomorrow for doing it!! No orchestra practice. There are 4 of us, 2 can't make it. And we're supposed to play at the nursing home next wk, on Thursday.

Today we picked up the ingredients, at our friends, for one of the things we're supposed to be making for the ordination. We're going to need a LOT of food!! :) The recipes call for American things, so we have quite a few of American things now, with which I'm going to be making Feta Cresent Rolls.

Ok, so, please pray for the ordination on Saturday, and probably next time I'll write here will be after the whole thing!! :)

Good-night.

25-March-2007 Sunday

Time changed today! I felt rather sorry for the Polish family who came to church 45 or so minutes late...

Bit of a bitter-sweet church service today! Last Sunday that our pastors will be pastors of this church... yes, P.Giles and his wife Rosilyn are taking over! The ordination is this Saturday. There are supposed to be 450 people!!! I have a feeling we'll be glad for our congregation of about 140 people in a couple wks, after all the visitors have left... (and I heard some of you say we're a big church?!) Not all people, of course, will fit into the auditorium. Most of the under-10s will be somewhere else, and there will be an audio-visual link in the other building, for the overflow of visitors. We church people, all 4 of the pastors, visiting ministers and worship band folks will have reserved seating, fortunately!! The other over-200 people will have to be seated on a first-come first-served basis I guess. I am on the team of people who will be there for almost the whole time. Food team! We'll be there like 8 hours, or something... I have no doubt that we'll be wiped-out by the time evening comes. We're supposed to be there at 10:00, and they want to lock up at 7:00. We're going to be operating on a very tight schedule. But, that's the only way we can do it. I'm looking forward to seeing all the visitors, the visiting ministers, and all. Of course, I'm looking forward to seeing our ast.pastors take over, but it's a little scary! Wonder what changes will come...

Todays sermon was good, but rather touching... P.Margaret preached about the "hand-over"... I don't know if she said all she had planned to say... it got too touching!!

Please keep everything in prayer for Sat.The most important things are: -good weather, -good health, -the whole setting up process to go smoothly.

19-March-2007

I was supposed to update this like every few days, right??!! I have been SO busy, I just haven't had time. Last night we went for an Anniversary workers meeting//prayer meeting, at church. The 25th Anniversary celebration and ordination is on the 31st! I'm one of the "catering staff", we're responsible for the food, the tables, etc... there should be about 340 people, in all. The bigger part is visitors!

It's got colder. Very much so. Yesterday it snowed a little twice. One time it wasn't so little. It came down suddenly, with a terribly strong wind, while Mom and I were driving to church. It was rather bad. :/

I've realized how dependant I am on different people. If I need help sometimes, I turn to our pastors, or assistant pastors, or my parents, or someone. At church, our assistant pastors always have time to listen to me, talk things with me, and pray with me. Even when they were in a hurry, they still took time. I sometimes wonder what will happen if we move out of here, and from this church. Who will I turn to? Of course, I am so thankful to God for His people, but I know I have to learn to turn to God more. Not just think "If only I can bear up till Sunday, then I'll talk to someone". NO. I have to turn to Someone. And that Someone is here for me 24/7. Not just on Sunday. Not just at a "counselling session". Not just then-and-then.

I don't know when I will write next. I will try and keep this posted!!

10-March-2007

It's over! It's over! It's over! We finally video-ed my speech that I had to give for my English coursework, for the exam course I'm doing... I did it with Mom. This is what we had to do. First, we talk, formally. Mom asked questions, I answered... then, building on from that, I gave my speech. The title was: "What Is Contemporary Christian Music, where does it come from, and why are some people against it". Then we talked about my speech... I really didn't want to do it, but... we had to! And, we did. The 4th try went well... that speaks for itself.

Seems like the stomach bug is at our house... I'm going to be the only one at church tomorrow. Mom will take me, then someone will bring me back... AND I'm supposed to be teaching the 3-5 yr olds Sunday School...

Is it really a month since I was in Poland?! It really doesn't seem like it... Not at all. We've been really busy...

Spring is here!!! The sky is so blue, the birds are singing, it's warmer... I wish I had had time today to go out there, and enjoy it, but I only stepped outdoors like twice, once to the rubbish bin, and second to the garage door, to get meat from the freezer. (note: when you want dinner at 5:30, don't get the meat out at 5:00. It just doesn't de-frost till then). I didn't have time to enjoy the weather... school work, making dinner, some cleaning, everything! Plus, with almost everyone sick... But, I'm really glad that we don't have the dreary days any longer... think I need my coat tomorrow?

06-March-2007

Have just spent ages forming the "random photographs" thing on this web page, just to find that it won't show the photos! Argh. But, Dad (Dads can do anything, can't they?!) helped, and it works now!

Some jokes that came up during supper tonight. I think my brothers have a knack of thinking up jokes...

Tomek starts, quizzing Janek:

"knock knock"

"who's there?"

"knock"

"knock who?"

"knock knock"

"who's there?"

"don't you see? I'm knock knock! that's my name!"

"what?!"

Well, it took us a while to explain to Janek that Tomek is saying that his first AND last name is "knock". Thus, he gets the name: "knock knock".

When Dad came home we attacked him with many of the "knock-knock" jokes, most of which he didn't guess (or pretended to?!), which only made us try and think up some even weirder ones... strange family? maybe...

Today I was feeling a bit crazy, mid-afternoon, after doing school-work etc... suddenly I thought I wasn't going to bear sitting at this desk any more. I leaned back in my chair and yelled/sang the first line of "Mial Korone Cierniowa" (He Had A Crown Of Thorns) at the top of my lungs... Mom looked at me quizzicaly, and said I look like I've been studying a lot!

04-March-2007.

Hi folks,

Finally my web page is properly up and running... it's been too long since I actually did something on it. I have been extremly busy. But--!!! I hope to add something every few days... we'll see how this'll go.

Today I decided to try and teach my family to make taffy. You boil sugar, butter, corn syrup, and a little salt, until it forms a hard ball when a little is dropped into cold water. Then you pour it out, cool it until you can handle it, and then pull it, takes 2 people to do it. Well, we didn't get any further than pouring it out, when I came to the conclusion that this just was not going to work out. It didn't. It dripped, it stuck everywhere, it wouldn't form a ball so we could pull it, it just wouldn't work. I was so frustrated and upset, after using heaps of margarine and icing sugar, we have something resembling taffy, but it's not hard... I so wished it would've turned out ok... argh!!! :/

Yesterday I sat and did Maths for about 5 hours. I was wiped-out! Looked like my tutor liked what I did. It goes towrd my finaly mark, so it's important. GCSEs in June! Then summer... ahh... then....... more school-work!!! :) the joys of being a teenager. But, it's going ok!!

Ok, will sign off, and hope to be back in a few days!!!