My inbox is quickly filling up. Many emails are left unread, some are read carefully, the others are quickly scanned and binned. If you need to catch our attention, you may want to phone us and eventually leave a message  or send an SMS. Skype works well also.
If you really need to send an email, keep it short please. If  there is more than a short paragraph, the important information might get lost.
Saturday: shopping for food in the morning. Also, some members of the conseil municipal (village/town council) will be on our estate to meet the locals, so I may go and meet them. In the afternoon, there is a football tournament on behalf of the Telethon (a charity event). Later on, my mum will be arriving for the weekend.
Sunday: Preaching on Galatians 1:1-9 in St Brieuc, then relax in the afternoon.
So, Jean-Baptiste’s football club had some free tickets to go to see En Avant Guingamp play against Bastia in the Roudourou (That’s Guingamp’s football stadium). It was fun. I went along with a few other grown ups, in order to help out with the kids. It was also an opportunity to meet some new people and to see a professional football game live. Â Almost 15000 people had come to support the team. That’s twice the population of the town.
I don’t know anything about football, so I can’t say I enjoyed the game so much. Yet, one can still recognise a good opportunity to score when he sees one.
The best part was the atmosphere in the stand where we sat. We were in the western stand. That’s also where the “Kop Rouge” sits. They are Guingamp’s ultras, their most fervent fans and followers. We sat a few rows from them. It was noisy, but they were clearly having fun and the atmosphere was great. They sang along for most of the game, with two people leading the singing and encouraging the crowd. They were also standing up for the whole of the game. Some years ago, Guingamp supporters were voted the best supporters in the country (that’s when they were playing in league 1), and it is not surprising.
We managed to get back to the cars without losing any of the kids that had come with us. Amazing! Jean-Baptiste was cold and tired, but he enjoyed it.
Jean-Baptiste’s coach last night to ask if he would be interested to go to see Guingamp play against Bastia tonight. Off course he was, and there’s a few spare tickets for some parents to go with them and help out with the kids. So, I am going with them.
It’s quite a big game apparently. 15000 people are expected (It’s about the population of Guingamp itself). En Avant Guingamp is 3rd, and Bastia is 4th. It should be exciting.
We had a good Sunday.The sun was shinning. I was leading the service, and Emmanuel Hartiel was preaching. In the afternoon, the children played quietly in their bedroom when we were having a rest (that’s rather unusual). We than went for a walk and had waffles back home. The rest of the afternoon was spent as a family, watching Scooby Doo 2 on VOD (free of charge this month).
Maxime has had a cold and didn’t sleep very well, but that’s fine. He is with us today and I hope he can be back in school tomorrow.