After nine weeks away from the UK, the time has come for our last blog post from Zambia. The past week has been really busy, with the end of term, primary sports day and then many many goodbyes. But it has been a good one and we know that many of the relationships we have built (and picked up) over the past nine weeks will continue for many years.
The trip has been, in many ways, hugely successful - we came out here with the primary aims of serving the school and encouraging the long-term staff during what is always the year's most tricky period. We feel that God has helped us to do this as we've been out here. And so, while we are really looking forward to coming home - to seeing friends and family back in the UK - our happiness is tinged with sadness.
So what now? Well, Phil Grove picks us up at 7.15 tomorrow morning to take us to the medical missionary plane with which he will be flying us down in Lusaka. We shall hopefully be in Lusaka around 10am, and will then spend the day in Lusaka before heading to the airport for 18.30 for a 21.30 flight to Dubai. After a three-hour stopover in Dubai (which, although it is in the early hours of the morning, will inevitably involve a McDonalds), we'll leave for Heathrow, touching down around 14.30 on Thursday, where we'll be picked up by Matt's Mum and Dad and will head down to Poole.
Thank you one last time for the extraordinary encouragement of knowing many of you have been supporting us in prayer over the past two months or so. We love you all.
Matt and Lou
Ps, do you remember the moustache competition Matt took part in in week seven? He lost.
Considerably.
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