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Shocking Your Friends

Only three days ago I had been talking via email with my good mate Chris who was in Quito, Ecuador. He had been there for a while by now, around two or three weeks actually, which for a traveller was quite a long time.

Only minutes ago I sent off an email. I figured that he would probably still be in Quito or at the outset, would be in a neighboring country. How wrong I was. Just after I had sent off my email, I received one from him. It seems our messages crossed over in transit. It came as a bit of a shock to hear that he had, during the past three days, actually done quite a lot of travel and was now sitting back at home. In Australia.

In his words:

Well this might come as a big shock to most people, but I’m back on Australiain soil. I arrived in Miles at 10.45pm last night, 20th August having left Quito at 2pm on the 17th of August. I came home to go to Melbourne and help teach in the first bible school there, which starts on the 17th of September. As you can all imagine, it was quite a shock for mum and dad, as they nor anyone else had any idea I was coming home.
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