Wonderful people

What can I say?, mmmm.... I met so wonderful people at
UCA. One of my best friends is Apple. I met her in UCA. She was always happy and busy, but she was always there to talk. I used to bother her... and now that I'm quite far from UK, she's still the same person I met and I continue bothering her now through the msn. (nothing changes..he,he,he) Perhaps next time I visit her I'll prepare some pasta..ha,ha,ha I know how she loves it!!!!ha,ha,ha,ha!!!!

Marjo, a lovely friend. Finnish..Now working with the church in Botswana. I remember there's a trip to Liverpool and we stood up in the middle of a bridge which was prohibited to do (I really don't know why... perhaps it was because of the crowd there)..but we didn't care... we just took a picture. It was the perfect place to take a picture!!!!

Marjo, Apple and I did other trips together.. Ian and Diana took as to Cambridge, and Sam and Pete to Gloucestershire.

Cecil & Jun. A couple from the Philipines.. Jun is a good cook!! Ohh, you must try one of his meals. They were as if they came from Peru too.. quite strange.. isn't it?. Cecil was a great support to me. I could talk anything with her and she will have always some advice to me. MERESIANA, the tall lady from Fiji who picked me up from Digbeth Coach Station when I first arrived to B'ham. Meresiana used to cook her own meals almost every weekend. When I first met her, I couldn't talk with her... maybe... because of her serious face. (was she angry?? I asked myself the first day).... but after some months at UCA I met how funny and lovely person she was to me. NOBUTAKA.... (The pic on your left) Nobutaka was always doing jokes... never paid a single entrance to the symphony hall and almost everynight we stayed in the library and talk there(where the internet was). Marlene, I loved how she played the flute. She formed a chorus with people of UCA. She took us to two churches to sing...the truth?, I don't know what I was doing there... but I did enjoy it. (do you remember the International evening??.) RUTH PADLEY... running from here to there... she was always busy...but, I's always bothering her with my ideas...ha,ha,ha... poor Ruth, all what she had to put up with... MYO... uhh.. how he missed his country and family!!!. Myo came from Myanmar, Burma and was like a big brother to me. We both arrived at UCA nearly at the same time and both studied English Language at Elm Field House. One sunny day, we were in the English course.. and when we finished we realized that it's raining really hard!!!. It's so funny!!!. That day we didn't carry none umbrella, neither coats... so we walked under the heavy rain.. and I think it was hailing too- (He was so angry!)

I can go on writing the endless list of friends I met there...

Val: an excellent minister and friend. Michael: (the one of the picture on your right) always serious but when I said something silly, he'd a big smile on his face. Emmanuel Jacob, a great tutor as well as Chad G. Anastasia, always happy and going out... she was the friend who received me and Amy in her place in St.Petersburg (Anastasia and me at St.Petersburg Station -pic on your left-). Ian & Diana were giving me support even when I was in Cheltenham. (we're still in contact)ohh... Diana has a lovely voice...Paul from India and Paul from China, Joan, Eileen, Ruth T., Irene Liu (how I envy the way she played the piano!!!!). BRIAN M. a so funny friend. Save from Fiji. My dear friend and minister Paw Liang The from Indonesia, Beatrice Gill from Belize a great minister too. Pete and Sam Taylor, The Moffot Family (I learnt some language sign from Sheila, like "tree", "good morning"....), David from India, Benhur (a funny friend too)..Kirsteen and her lovely daughter, Colin, Hiroki Shinkai (from Japan), Georgina from Germany (I remember the day she was leaving UCA, and I prepared some toasts for my breakfast... it ended when the firemen came because of the alarm which was on... just because my toasts burned... and all people went out of the building and could see when Georgina took her taxi!!),

Violeta Vuka, an albanian friend who is now living in Canada (the one of the picture on your left). Tom Perku, from Albania too . Mama Grace and J. Gichimu. Friederike & Markus+ daughter (all from Germany), Rvd. FrTitus, Jacqeline Abarca from Chile(the girl with long dark hair of the pic on your right), ZOE and her friend from Spain, Jenny who was working there next to David and Jenny from China , Paul & Mary Thomas plus their 3 sons. Helen and Marty Rowe from Australia, Ken Davies, all of them and the ones that their name are not written here, were and are a blessing to me. I stayed at UCA just for 5 months. And I did love it. Now it's quite sad to hear, that UCA will close.

Some people moved to another place in UK, others (as me) went back to their own countries, some who where working there are looking for another job. As the Bible said... everything has its own time... People from
all around the world stayed at UCA, and all of them formed that real family where I was a member one day.