Settling into Cambridge
We’ve been living here in Cambridge for almost a month now and thought it a good time to say hello and give you a news update. College term has not yet started (a week to go) and so we’ve been able to enjoy a rest over the last couple of weeks, having unpacked and settled in. We’ve worked out where the Tesco’s is and all the essentials. Of course, we’ve also made a priority of registering with a doctor and visiting the local hospital’s maternity wing to make sure we are ready when Kerry goes into labour.
Speaking of which, Kerry and baby two are both fine. She is fit to burst and pretty uncomfortable doing most things as heavily pregnant women tend to be. However, both are healthy and well and we are trying to finalize names and get the children’s room ready for an extra occupant!
Big sister Bethya has settled really well into Cambridge. She is enjoying our nice, flat back garden and seems to enjoy having David around more now that he isn’t commuting every day. It’s fairly clear to us that Bethya is missing her grandparents and her little friends – her cousin Jack and all the rest of the littl’uns. However Bethya and we have been pleased to see her grandparents up here a couple of times and some of our Tunbridge Wells friends.
College-wise, very little official stuff is happening yet. The term starts in a fortnight but the students themselves and (where applicable) their partners are active and we have gone to various socials to get to know people. There seems to be a really good bunch of people in training and a few kiddies around amongst their families of Bethya’s age or similar for her to play with.
We’ll be here for two years while David does his training which will involve both theological education and academic work of various kinds (ethics, church history, leadership training, mission, pastoral theology and more) as well as practical opportunities. He’ll be placed in a church where he’ll work alongside the clergy there and have to do shorter placements in other places like hospitals, prisons, hospices etc.
When David finishes, it’ll be time to find a church in which to be a curate. It’s highly possible that it may be in Tunbridge Wells or in the Diocese of Rochester somewhere but it’s not guaranteed at all. We’ll just have to see where God guides us!
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