Update

Last week classes were a little less intense than usual due to sickness (stomach flu this time). Thursday and Friday we had a guest speaker, Steven Holmes, who is a social entrepreneur. He starts businesses with a purpose all over the world and also has a school that teaches business and entrepreneur stuff.

One of the main parts of our classes with him was a project where he "gave" us a piece of land with some money and in teams we had to come up with a business, a ministry or both to use the land for. It was really good to be forced to start with something, brainstorm ideas of what it could be, pick a simple idea and take it through all the necessary steps to make it a viable business. In the end we had to present our idea to a panel of judges (fake mayor, fake grants officer, fake loans officer etc) and the best idea won a prize (which Steven forgot about in the end so no one got it!). I (Jo) have always thought of myself as more of a visionary who could come up with great ideas and not know how to take them forward into a business but when it came down to it in our groups my business side really came out.

This weekend started out wonderfully - I went with another mom to the flea market in Fuengirola, Steve played basketball and soccer, we went to the beach on Sunday...and on the way to the beach, sickness struck. We thought the flu bug had passed us by but unfortunately, it had not. Dez got taken down first but still seemed relatively happy. After he went to bed Sunday night was when it hit Steve and I. We spent all day Monday in bed and after waking up this morning spent the rest of our time before afternoon class scrubbing and cleaning our apartment.

This week our speaker is George Ridley from Lightforce International. We missed 3 classes with him but look forward to the rest of the week with him.

Fun at the beach on Sunday:

 Enjoying the cold Mediterranean

Two more weeks of classes for this term and then we have a two week break. We booked flights to Ukraine from the 17th to the 30th to visit with friends and to pray about what God might want us to do there in the future.