Hi from NY

Taxi - felt so sick on the back route over moors to Manchester
Flight -one hour saved due to wind
Retreat House - historic and holy
People - fantastic

I am here and I keep saying like a loony, things like "Wow - look at that - so iconic! Traffic lights, school buses, skyline, Central Park."

I am blogging my way through conversations at my Indaba blog but limiting readership. Information will be collated from us all at some point in the process.

Here I will just record some personal responses over the next few days.

I am having some technology issues. Virgin have not activated my phone yet and the cheap phone from Tescos for personal calls is not the right kind of phone for here. I can gmail chat with family on this Acer notepad, so all is well.

My room is very holy-looking and Jesus is still on his cross above my head - but I guess that's okay, Ben Fulford's classes on Catholic approaches are helping me to deal with that one! ;-)

It is strange adjusting to the time change and I woke at 3am to start the day and then figured I could have a 3 hour lie-in, so applying the positive-thinking technique to most situations helps.

Last night we went to a bar but I had hot chocolate, after- all body-clock wise, we didn't set out until 2am.

I am sitting here now negotiating a free shower before prayer and breakfast before joining other delegates for the day. We have a big church to visit and I might get an opportunity to talk further with the lady running the Bronx project which we will visit this week - a highlight of the trip, I reckon. If I thought Streetpastor work was edgy, this is probably going to open my eyes a bit.

Okay, I think that's my turn in the bathroom. Bye.