an untimely challenge

all challanges are untimely really. so i guess thats a stupid name for a post. but some challenges a re untimely-untimely challanges and are just plain unfair.
my family have had a complication with the couple they work with and now have 60 days to find an alternative sponsor for their visas. when it comes down to it, im calm, im not stressed becos i know that they will find a way and God called them to china - to work with these ppl. therefore, these people will not be the reason that my parents have to return to australia without having fulfilled their vision.
i just feel for my mum. well my dad but my mum especially. this couple were not just aquaintences, or even friends, they were partners! they were doing gods work together and as a result formed a very strong friendship - a bond. in places like that u need these kinds of links with ppl in order to survive. u really need friends. chinese friends are fine but only foreign friends will really understand what you are going thru and relate to ur day to day frustrations.

and on a totally unrelated issue.....
last friday i drove down to mandurah to go on a cruise with a friend of mine. it was for his work christmas do so it was all paid for, free food, free drinks, free cruise (student mentality = bring on the free stuff!) it was a fun night. food was good, ppl were ok, the cruise was lovely. the drive home however was something entirely different. jarrad was driving and 3 of his extremely drunk work mates were in the back. i would not, in my wildest dreams ever repeat the things they were saying not only in general, but also TO ME. at one stage jarrad pulled over and threatened to leave them all at the side of the road if they didnt stop speaking to me like they were. it was horrible. i ended up driving home at a crazy hour of the morning feeling upset and used and worthless. but the next day i was able to lift my chin up and put it all behind me.
and now looking at it, its made me thankful and opened my eyes. that scene, that really hurt me on friday night, was where i would have ended up. i would have ended up with loser bf's like them. in a crowd like them that has no respect for women or regard for others
im so glad that i have the friends i have to day, and the standards i have today.