Working from my mobile

I’ve gotten my hands on a local SIM card so I’ve got relatively cheap Internet access from my handy/cell phone. (for those of you in North American – most of the world’s cell phones take a special chip called a SIM card that has your phone number programmed in to it. So changing phone numbers is as easy as switching out your chip.) For blogging, this means that I can blog off line on my cell phone and then jump online and post it saving me time & money. Ironically, the speed is actually faster thru my mobile phone than the local Internet cafe. Many parts of the world are skipping the wired high speed connections of DSL & cable modems and going straight to cellular broadband connections. So for me, I’m loving this experience and hope new ministry ideas are sparked from this.

Currently, its the heat of the day and so we are all resting. This morning I’ve been fighting a little cold but the kids got to go swimming and we had Mexican food for lunch. This afternoon we’re planning on going to a crocidile farm and watch them be fed. I hope to get some good pictures of that however it could be disturbing for some.

It really is nice to be around family but it is interesting how we’re all seeing little cultural differences. My mother & father-in-law have spent many years in Africa (my father-in-law grew up in Ethiopia) and my sister-in-law & her family have been in the Middle East for nearly a decade and we’re finding ourselves thinking more German like all the time. So now cultural differences creep in but luckily we recognize them as such and are quickly able to move on. I do wonder though how many families are together for the holidays and don’t recognize the “cultural” differences they have even though they are family and just allow that to upset their time together.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas Eve!