Greetings from the Land of Aussies! (Pastor Paul and Janet Tanchio)

Hi Everybody,

We are shifting from the Hills district into the inner west suburb of Annandale in the city today.
It'll be five minutes away from campus, and orientation starts tomorrow.

We are thankful that God has eased us into Sydney in stages.
While at the Hills district, we have been staying with Singaporeans - pastors,
fellowshipping with Asian people - S'poreans, M'sians, Philipinos who have lived here a good part of their lives. Learning our way around.

We will be moving into 32/106 Johnston Street, Johnston Lodge.
It's a one room studio - quite clean and secure -
bed and things like fridge and micro-wave are provided for, oven and laundry is shared facilities,
but we may not be able to get broadband in the building.
Since dail-up may not be a viable option, we may be living there temporarily for 13 weeks.
Sydney seems to be having a shortage of rental apartments,
so we'll see what the situation is like in three months time.

PP quite ready to settle in to study -
(but) he's still looking for his package of reference books that we had to leave behind.
Seems quite lost without his books.
It was 37kg, so we'll have to find some way of bringing it here soon.

At Annandale, we will be surrounded by a Catholic church diagonally across the road,
a Uniting church in front of the lodge we are staying,
a Presbyterian church to our right,
and a 'Christians in the Media' Anglican church to our left.
Any idea which church we should visit first? (Grin)
And we'll will be visiting this Asian church we have been worshiping at once a month
(or maybe bi-monthly - still not used to long journeys).

We look forward to settling in - and will update you when we have opportunity.

Shalom,
Janet Tanchio