mark + ange guinn

It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything and we’ve had a lot of people ask us when we are leaving, so I’ll try to give as much of an update as I can. The short answer is two to four months. The problem is that we’re now having to take care of things that we thought we could take care of during our first six months of Irish life – things like letters of invitation and visas. Once we get our visas we are planning to leave a month for us to get packed and say goodbye before we get on a plane, but we can’t really give a more definite timeline than that.

Our fundraising is coming along, though and it looks like we’re getting in the ballpark. I’ll be working 20 hours per week for an American company (thank you Lord for the internet), so that puts us a lot closer without needing a British work visa. God continues to slowly make a way and we’re thankful.

Mark

Last Saturday (the 5th) some of our good friends (and a few of our bad ones) threw us a big Ireland awareness/goodbye/pickin-and-grinnin party. Lots of our musical friends played some of their stuff and everybody else just ate a lot, talked a lot, and tried not to step on each other. It was kind of like an open mic night in a really cool sardine can.

Ange and I played some of our own stuff, and there was an impromptu re-union of our old band The Lions. Here’s a photo:

We had a super fun time, though and I must say we’ve never felt quote so hip. Many thanks to Lisa, Joseph, Laura, and Chris B (and the others) for throwing us such a cool party.