Dear Friends and Family,
I hope you are all doing well. I have had a great time at my service project today. I said goodbye to an woman, Lily, who is moving back to her home town of Asuut in Upper Egypt. Her son who lives in New Jersey was here to help her move out. The last couple of weeks we had a good time talking about everything under the sun including faith, politics, Egypt, our families, etc. I was sad to see her go, but she is was very happy to be going back home. The thing I most enjoy is interacting with the staff at the geriatrics center. Even though most of them don't know English very well we have a fun time together. Today there wasn't much to do so after we completed our tasks we played ping pong and pool. I definitely am reminded of the beauties of cross-cultural interaction every time I go there.
This week as also been a very fun and busy week. What's new? This last Thursday me and a few other people went to an Egyptian jazz concert behind Al Azhar Mosque, a very famous mosque in Egypt. My tabla teacher, Heni plays percussion in the band that played. I just realized I don't think I mentioned that I am learning to play the tabla; the tabla is a drum by the way. MESP offers four cultural activities that students can participate in: cooking, Dabka (a Palestinian dance), belly dancing (for the ladies only), and tabla. So anyways Heni is teaching me and a few others tabla. He is a pretty amazing percussion player and teaches and plays in many other bands. All of that said, some of us went to a concert by a sextet and a Jordanian singer. Egyptian jazz is definitely different than what you think jazz is; it has a very eastern sound to it. The instruments in the band included a drum set, electric bass, keyboard/synth, a lute, a violin, and various percussive instruments (congas, tabla, tambourine). There was also a Jordanian singer that had a beautiful voice. It was fun to sit in this beautiful place and listen to some great music.
Last Friday we had a Coptic day where thirty Coptic youth came and we talked with each other about faith and hung out. We were originally supposed to travel to them and participate in an evening service. It was really good to hang out with Egyptian peers to get there views on faith and how living in Egypt has affected their faith journey. We also were able to play games and just converse with them.
On Saturday night my roommates and I met up with two Egyptian guys, Asharaf and Shariif, that my roommate Josh met at the soccer game. We went bowling at the nicest bowling alley I have ever been to and it was only 10 Egyptian pounds for one game and shoe rentals. Afterward we went to a cafe and talked. It was a fun night.
In the midst of all of this we had a pretty intense week of classes. We had two quizzes, one for Arabic class and another for Islamic Thought and Practice, and an Arabic midterm yesterday. We also had a three hour class of Arabic on Saturday morning because this week is the end of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr will be celebrated starting tomorrow and ending on next Tuesday. So there will be no Arabic class tomorrow, Thursday, Sunday or Monday. Also tomorrow we will be leaving to Siwa, a Bedouin desert community in the western desert of Egypt. Insha'Allah we will get to swim in hot and cold springs, go sand boarding down sand dunes, off-roading in a jeep, and camping out in the desert. We get back on Saturday. Then on Sunday we will move away from Agouza and our flats and live with homestay families somewhere in Cairo and commute to class and service projects for a week.
So the fun, craziness, and busyness keeps on going. Insha' Allah I'll post some pictures of my adventures this last week later tonight. I hope you all have a great rest of your week. Ma' salaama.
Scott
9.30.2008
9.22.2008
Misa Il Kheer fi Misr (Good evening from Egypt),
I hope you are all doing well. This last week has been another busy one for me of classes homework and traveling. On Friday morning I left with the rest of the students to go to Alexandria for the weekend. We arrived by train. Alexandria is a much more like a European city as it was controlled by the Greeks for a long time. It has the feel of a busy city mixed with the more laid back attitude of a beach town. Suffice to say it was much cooler and less polluted than Cairo. While I was there I went to the National Museum and learned about the rich history that Alexandria has from Pharonic times to the present. I saw what was left of some of the ancient Greco/Roman sites like an amphitheater and catacombs. The only thing I wasn't able to do because of time was swim in the Mediterranean Sea. All in all it was a fun weekend.
On Thursday I was able to meet up with a good friend of mine, Alyssa, who has been studying abroad in Cairo by herself since mid June. She goes to APU as well and is a Global Studies major which requires a self directed study abroad. She has been living in with a homestay and interning at two non-profits. It was really fun to catch up with her and what she has been doing in Cairo. We met up at this beautiful park that overlooks most of Cairo called Al Azhar park. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of it but I plan on going back again.
Although it does not seem like I have been to busy this last week, the amount of information that I have already been given to learn and try and remember has been great. Added with the foreign culture that I live in, tiredness has definitely started to set in. Also being that it is Ramadan one of the local mosques, which we visited for a Friday service the first week, invited the MESP students to partake in iftar (the breaking of the fast every night of Ramadan at sundown). Every night of Ramadan the mosque provides a meal for anyone who cannot afford a meal or who has no one to celebrate it with can come and eat. Anyways, as to not overwhelm the mosque with 30 students we split up into smaller groups and participated in iftar. So tonight I went with some of my roommates to the fast. And to respect Islam, Ramadan, and the people there we did not eat or drink anything all day from sunrise to sunset as those are the requirements of Ramadan for all Muslims that are able. All of that said part of my exhaustion was due to the fact that I didn't drink or eat anything until a couple of hours ago. Fasting just for a day was really hard and being able to experience that further increases my respect I have for Muslims and their faith to be able to do that for a whole month. The purpose is to recognize their dependence on Allah and grow closer to God and each other. The fact that everyone has to fast (rich and poor, old and young) promotes an equality between all Muslims. Overall it was great to experience it and all of the people that we met were very welcoming of us even though we were not Muslims.
Well that's it for now my body is tired and needs more rest so ma' salaama.
Scott
I hope you are all doing well. This last week has been another busy one for me of classes homework and traveling. On Friday morning I left with the rest of the students to go to Alexandria for the weekend. We arrived by train. Alexandria is a much more like a European city as it was controlled by the Greeks for a long time. It has the feel of a busy city mixed with the more laid back attitude of a beach town. Suffice to say it was much cooler and less polluted than Cairo. While I was there I went to the National Museum and learned about the rich history that Alexandria has from Pharonic times to the present. I saw what was left of some of the ancient Greco/Roman sites like an amphitheater and catacombs. The only thing I wasn't able to do because of time was swim in the Mediterranean Sea. All in all it was a fun weekend.
On Thursday I was able to meet up with a good friend of mine, Alyssa, who has been studying abroad in Cairo by herself since mid June. She goes to APU as well and is a Global Studies major which requires a self directed study abroad. She has been living in with a homestay and interning at two non-profits. It was really fun to catch up with her and what she has been doing in Cairo. We met up at this beautiful park that overlooks most of Cairo called Al Azhar park. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of it but I plan on going back again.
Although it does not seem like I have been to busy this last week, the amount of information that I have already been given to learn and try and remember has been great. Added with the foreign culture that I live in, tiredness has definitely started to set in. Also being that it is Ramadan one of the local mosques, which we visited for a Friday service the first week, invited the MESP students to partake in iftar (the breaking of the fast every night of Ramadan at sundown). Every night of Ramadan the mosque provides a meal for anyone who cannot afford a meal or who has no one to celebrate it with can come and eat. Anyways, as to not overwhelm the mosque with 30 students we split up into smaller groups and participated in iftar. So tonight I went with some of my roommates to the fast. And to respect Islam, Ramadan, and the people there we did not eat or drink anything all day from sunrise to sunset as those are the requirements of Ramadan for all Muslims that are able. All of that said part of my exhaustion was due to the fact that I didn't drink or eat anything until a couple of hours ago. Fasting just for a day was really hard and being able to experience that further increases my respect I have for Muslims and their faith to be able to do that for a whole month. The purpose is to recognize their dependence on Allah and grow closer to God and each other. The fact that everyone has to fast (rich and poor, old and young) promotes an equality between all Muslims. Overall it was great to experience it and all of the people that we met were very welcoming of us even though we were not Muslims.
Well that's it for now my body is tired and needs more rest so ma' salaama.
Scott
9.14.2008
Dear friends and family,
My semester in Egypt has officially begun. I say that because things our now starting to get busy with classes, trips, homework, etc. The first two weeks moved by quite slowly as we were adjusting to this new life and culture. Now after the first trip outside of Egypt, several classes and guest lecturers, increasing homework, and seemingly less and less free time I feel that my semester is now officially beginning.
That said I would like to share a funny story that happened this last Tuesday. Every Tuesday each of us goes to our respective service projects. I go to the geriatrics center with another student, Thomas. However this time two additional students, Abbie and Brita, came along with us because they could not go to their service project because it was located near the rockslide. This was our first time traveling to the service project by ourselves because the first time one the staff members drove us there in his car to show us how to get there. We did have a half sheet of paper with rather detailed instructions in English on how to get there.
So we all piled in to a taxi at around 8:05am and told the taxi driver Nasr City, which is on the opposite side of Cairo from where we live. The expression on the taxi driver’s face when I told him we wanted to go to Nasr City was one of uncertainty, but nonetheless we left Agouza and headed off to Nasr City. The fun began when the taxi driver took the wrong exit off the 6th of October Bridge, a bridge that runs east/west through Cairo. We told him this was wrong in very broken Arabic. After realizing it he stopped along the side of the road to ask a man how to get where we were going. The man also could read English so he read the directions we were given and thus ensued the first of many conversations between the taxi driver and various other Egyptians. After talking to the man we (we meaning the taxi driver, the other students and myself) drove off seeming confident of where we were going. However it soon became apparent that we had no idea where we were or how to get there. After unsuccessfully asking several other people on the side of the street if they knew English and could help us we found a women who could read English. She as well as many other Egyptian men who crowded around our taxi began giving there opinions, insights, and general help on how to get to our destination. Mind you this was all in Arabic and many times at once. After talking with close to a dozen different people our taxi driver headed off again. This time as we drove it seemed more and more familiar until we really believed we had found the place only to realize the building we thought we were going to see was a park. Frustrated and confused our taxi driver drove on all the while talking to us in Arabic trying to figure out how to get to this place. After asking yet another man for help we made it to the main road through Nasr City that looked both familiar to Thomas and myself. We tried one last time to ask someone for help. The taxi driver stopped by a group of taxi drivers parked on the side of the street and one of them came over and started speaking to us in English. After telling him where we wanted to go he brought over several maps and I was able to point in the general direction to of where we should go. He then preceded to tell me where to go, then gave me his business card, and off we went again. Thankfully, il-Hamdulilaah, over an hour and half later and 50 pounds poorer (twice as much as it should have been if we didn’t get lost) we made it. Now I really know how to get from Agouza to Nasr City.
This last Thursday we left for Mt. Sinai and the Red Sea at 6pm. Eight hours later we arrived at Mt. Sinai after suffering a flat tire and a 45 minute delay. So around 2:30am we began our ascent up Mt. Sinai. You climb in late evening early morning because one its cool and two, the sunrise from the top of Mt. Sinai is beautiful. We were led by a Bedouin guide named Salaam and made it up to the top just before sunrise. It was very beautiful. What was interesting was the hundreds of other people of varying nationalities who made the same trek as well. Many of them were Christians and sang various songs in their native tongue as the sun rose. Another group even had communion and prayer at the top. After we came back down from the mountain we waited at the bottom for St. Catharine’s Monastery to open. St. Catharine’s as the most original iconography dating back to the 1100 and 1200s second only to the Vatican. It also claims to house the burning bush.
After we saw the monastery we got back on the bus and headed for Dahab, a town along the Red Sea. There we swam in the Red Sea and dined in a restaurant that was right next to the water. The whole area was beautiful. The water itself is very clear with lots of coral and tropical fish. The next day we went snorkeling at this place called the Blue Lagoon just north of Dahab. It was quite an amazing experience and a lot of fun.
Well definitely need to end it here because tonight we are going to a soccer match between two of the best two teams in Cairo. I’ll try and post some pictures tomorrow. Ma’salaama.
Scott
My semester in Egypt has officially begun. I say that because things our now starting to get busy with classes, trips, homework, etc. The first two weeks moved by quite slowly as we were adjusting to this new life and culture. Now after the first trip outside of Egypt, several classes and guest lecturers, increasing homework, and seemingly less and less free time I feel that my semester is now officially beginning.
That said I would like to share a funny story that happened this last Tuesday. Every Tuesday each of us goes to our respective service projects. I go to the geriatrics center with another student, Thomas. However this time two additional students, Abbie and Brita, came along with us because they could not go to their service project because it was located near the rockslide. This was our first time traveling to the service project by ourselves because the first time one the staff members drove us there in his car to show us how to get there. We did have a half sheet of paper with rather detailed instructions in English on how to get there.
So we all piled in to a taxi at around 8:05am and told the taxi driver Nasr City, which is on the opposite side of Cairo from where we live. The expression on the taxi driver’s face when I told him we wanted to go to Nasr City was one of uncertainty, but nonetheless we left Agouza and headed off to Nasr City. The fun began when the taxi driver took the wrong exit off the 6th of October Bridge, a bridge that runs east/west through Cairo. We told him this was wrong in very broken Arabic. After realizing it he stopped along the side of the road to ask a man how to get where we were going. The man also could read English so he read the directions we were given and thus ensued the first of many conversations between the taxi driver and various other Egyptians. After talking to the man we (we meaning the taxi driver, the other students and myself) drove off seeming confident of where we were going. However it soon became apparent that we had no idea where we were or how to get there. After unsuccessfully asking several other people on the side of the street if they knew English and could help us we found a women who could read English. She as well as many other Egyptian men who crowded around our taxi began giving there opinions, insights, and general help on how to get to our destination. Mind you this was all in Arabic and many times at once. After talking with close to a dozen different people our taxi driver headed off again. This time as we drove it seemed more and more familiar until we really believed we had found the place only to realize the building we thought we were going to see was a park. Frustrated and confused our taxi driver drove on all the while talking to us in Arabic trying to figure out how to get to this place. After asking yet another man for help we made it to the main road through Nasr City that looked both familiar to Thomas and myself. We tried one last time to ask someone for help. The taxi driver stopped by a group of taxi drivers parked on the side of the street and one of them came over and started speaking to us in English. After telling him where we wanted to go he brought over several maps and I was able to point in the general direction to of where we should go. He then preceded to tell me where to go, then gave me his business card, and off we went again. Thankfully, il-Hamdulilaah, over an hour and half later and 50 pounds poorer (twice as much as it should have been if we didn’t get lost) we made it. Now I really know how to get from Agouza to Nasr City.
This last Thursday we left for Mt. Sinai and the Red Sea at 6pm. Eight hours later we arrived at Mt. Sinai after suffering a flat tire and a 45 minute delay. So around 2:30am we began our ascent up Mt. Sinai. You climb in late evening early morning because one its cool and two, the sunrise from the top of Mt. Sinai is beautiful. We were led by a Bedouin guide named Salaam and made it up to the top just before sunrise. It was very beautiful. What was interesting was the hundreds of other people of varying nationalities who made the same trek as well. Many of them were Christians and sang various songs in their native tongue as the sun rose. Another group even had communion and prayer at the top. After we came back down from the mountain we waited at the bottom for St. Catharine’s Monastery to open. St. Catharine’s as the most original iconography dating back to the 1100 and 1200s second only to the Vatican. It also claims to house the burning bush.
After we saw the monastery we got back on the bus and headed for Dahab, a town along the Red Sea. There we swam in the Red Sea and dined in a restaurant that was right next to the water. The whole area was beautiful. The water itself is very clear with lots of coral and tropical fish. The next day we went snorkeling at this place called the Blue Lagoon just north of Dahab. It was quite an amazing experience and a lot of fun.
Well definitely need to end it here because tonight we are going to a soccer match between two of the best two teams in Cairo. I’ll try and post some pictures tomorrow. Ma’salaama.
Scott
9.07.2008
Hello everyone,
First of all, I am healthy and well. For those you who might not have heard there was a terrible rockslide in Egypt that has killed at least 30 and trapped many more under rocks. Thankfully, none of the students or staff from MESP were near the area when the disaster happened. However, it is a terrible tragedy that definitely warrants prayer for the people of Garbage City and the families affected.
I pray that all of you are well. I myself am doing great. I completed my first week of class, although it was only two days. So far Arabic is easy with little homework, but it is supposed to be easy right now. I actually have class on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and my service project at the geriatrics center on Tuesday. Today I had Arabic class and we also started Islamic thought and practice. Our instructor is a Sunni Muslim and really intelligent. She actually took us to three different and important mosques historically. It was fascinating to hear about the architectural, historical, and religious importance of the three mosques.
Because we have school/volunteer work Sunday through Thursday my weekend is Friday and Saturday. This last Friday and Saturday I with a few other people went to the Egyptian Museum, downtown Cairo, Zamelik (an island in the Nile), Coptic Cairo, and an English speaking service at an Episcopal Church in Maadi (the foreigners part of town). The Egyptian Museum was stuffed to the brim of tombs, coffins, stone tablets with writing, figurines, statues, etc. It was pretty cool. Downtown Cairo doesn’t get really busy until after 11pm and stays busy until early into the morning. I was there until 1am and people were still everywhere. Zamelik is a very westernized and wealthy part of town where a few of my roommates and I had lunch on Friday. Coptic Cairo is a section of the city where many old Coptic Churches were built a long time ago. One the churches holds claim to having the tombs of the Holy Family in their crypt below. And finally the church service I went was really good. We went with Barrett (one of the MESP interns who attends that church). It was nice to go to a church service after not being to church for a couple of weeks.
So yeah I did all of that in two days and there is still so much more to see in Cairo. Sorry I couldn’t go into much detail but it would take forever to write it all out it. Again I pray that you are all doing well back in the states. Thank you for your continued prayers and support. More pictures are finally uploaded so check them out. Finally, my next blog entry probably won’t be until next Monday or Tuesday. This Thursday we are traveling to the Sinai Peninsula and hiking Mount Sinai and then swimming and snorkeling in the Red Sea. So I hope you all have a great week.
Love, Scott
First of all, I am healthy and well. For those you who might not have heard there was a terrible rockslide in Egypt that has killed at least 30 and trapped many more under rocks. Thankfully, none of the students or staff from MESP were near the area when the disaster happened. However, it is a terrible tragedy that definitely warrants prayer for the people of Garbage City and the families affected.
I pray that all of you are well. I myself am doing great. I completed my first week of class, although it was only two days. So far Arabic is easy with little homework, but it is supposed to be easy right now. I actually have class on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and my service project at the geriatrics center on Tuesday. Today I had Arabic class and we also started Islamic thought and practice. Our instructor is a Sunni Muslim and really intelligent. She actually took us to three different and important mosques historically. It was fascinating to hear about the architectural, historical, and religious importance of the three mosques.
Because we have school/volunteer work Sunday through Thursday my weekend is Friday and Saturday. This last Friday and Saturday I with a few other people went to the Egyptian Museum, downtown Cairo, Zamelik (an island in the Nile), Coptic Cairo, and an English speaking service at an Episcopal Church in Maadi (the foreigners part of town). The Egyptian Museum was stuffed to the brim of tombs, coffins, stone tablets with writing, figurines, statues, etc. It was pretty cool. Downtown Cairo doesn’t get really busy until after 11pm and stays busy until early into the morning. I was there until 1am and people were still everywhere. Zamelik is a very westernized and wealthy part of town where a few of my roommates and I had lunch on Friday. Coptic Cairo is a section of the city where many old Coptic Churches were built a long time ago. One the churches holds claim to having the tombs of the Holy Family in their crypt below. And finally the church service I went was really good. We went with Barrett (one of the MESP interns who attends that church). It was nice to go to a church service after not being to church for a couple of weeks.
So yeah I did all of that in two days and there is still so much more to see in Cairo. Sorry I couldn’t go into much detail but it would take forever to write it all out it. Again I pray that you are all doing well back in the states. Thank you for your continued prayers and support. More pictures are finally uploaded so check them out. Finally, my next blog entry probably won’t be until next Monday or Tuesday. This Thursday we are traveling to the Sinai Peninsula and hiking Mount Sinai and then swimming and snorkeling in the Red Sea. So I hope you all have a great week.
Love, Scott
9.02.2008
Hello Everyone,
All is well in Cairo. Tomorrow I start my Arabic class, which I am looking forward to very much so I can begin to understand, speak, and get around the city easier. The last few days we have just done various activities to acquaint ourselves with our neighborhood, transportation, and the city in general. Two days ago we were split into groups of four and told to explore the the city by using the subway. The subway is by far the easiest, cleanest, and cheapest mode of transportation here. It costs one pound for a ticket and you can go as far as you want. That's like a little less than twenty cents one way. It was pretty cool. Our group went to Maadi which is a very affluent, westernized, and white part of the city. There were a lot of foreigners there.
Yesterday, however, has been by far the coolest experience. We first went to Garbage City, which is exactly what the title says it is, a city full of garbage. Because there is no waste management services here in Cairo, many times trash is just thrown on the ground. A while back Coptic Christians began collecting trash sorting it, reusing what they could, and selling the junk that they reclaimed. They discovered this niche market and have been collecting trash ever since. They live on the outskirts of Cairo on the the south side. Anyways, we visited an orphanage in Garbage city run by nuns as well as this recycled paper business run by women. The babies in the orphanage were adorable and it was hard to set them down to leave. The recycled paper business was very cool. It was started to provide women with jobs. What they do is collect all the paper that is thrown away, sort it into what they can use, and cannot use, and reuse it by turning it into stationery, bookmarks, journals, photoalbums, etc. They also make quilts, rugs, aprons, oven mitts, etc. The last thing we visited was a Coptic church that was built into the mountainside just above Garbage city. It is a beautiful church and a place where many Coptics make a sort of pilgrimage to. The church was built in the 70s but it claims to be the site of many miracles dating back a 1000 years. There are actually three churches on the mountain side, two of which are literally built in caves. The biggest is outside where a giant of overhang in the mountain shelters the auditorium shaped sanctuary. Think Hollywood Bowl with a rock ceiling.
Today we started our service projects. I along with another guy, Thomas, are serving at a geriatrics center in Nasr City, which is on the oppostie side of where we are living. It was not my first choice in where I wanted to serve, but it will help me learn Arabic faster as only a handful of the residents and staff speak English. Today we just visited some of the residents and met the director and some of the staff. Next Tuesday we begin the real work. I will be working at this geriatrics center every Tuesday five hours a day for the next 8 weeks.
Well I should end it here. I hope all of you are well, il Humdidulah (by the grace of God).
Scott
P.S. I couldn't upload pictures this time because the internet connection that I get on balcony is really weak and sometimes doesn't work at all. I'll let you know when I have posted some pictures.
All is well in Cairo. Tomorrow I start my Arabic class, which I am looking forward to very much so I can begin to understand, speak, and get around the city easier. The last few days we have just done various activities to acquaint ourselves with our neighborhood, transportation, and the city in general. Two days ago we were split into groups of four and told to explore the the city by using the subway. The subway is by far the easiest, cleanest, and cheapest mode of transportation here. It costs one pound for a ticket and you can go as far as you want. That's like a little less than twenty cents one way. It was pretty cool. Our group went to Maadi which is a very affluent, westernized, and white part of the city. There were a lot of foreigners there.
Yesterday, however, has been by far the coolest experience. We first went to Garbage City, which is exactly what the title says it is, a city full of garbage. Because there is no waste management services here in Cairo, many times trash is just thrown on the ground. A while back Coptic Christians began collecting trash sorting it, reusing what they could, and selling the junk that they reclaimed. They discovered this niche market and have been collecting trash ever since. They live on the outskirts of Cairo on the the south side. Anyways, we visited an orphanage in Garbage city run by nuns as well as this recycled paper business run by women. The babies in the orphanage were adorable and it was hard to set them down to leave. The recycled paper business was very cool. It was started to provide women with jobs. What they do is collect all the paper that is thrown away, sort it into what they can use, and cannot use, and reuse it by turning it into stationery, bookmarks, journals, photoalbums, etc. They also make quilts, rugs, aprons, oven mitts, etc. The last thing we visited was a Coptic church that was built into the mountainside just above Garbage city. It is a beautiful church and a place where many Coptics make a sort of pilgrimage to. The church was built in the 70s but it claims to be the site of many miracles dating back a 1000 years. There are actually three churches on the mountain side, two of which are literally built in caves. The biggest is outside where a giant of overhang in the mountain shelters the auditorium shaped sanctuary. Think Hollywood Bowl with a rock ceiling.
Today we started our service projects. I along with another guy, Thomas, are serving at a geriatrics center in Nasr City, which is on the oppostie side of where we are living. It was not my first choice in where I wanted to serve, but it will help me learn Arabic faster as only a handful of the residents and staff speak English. Today we just visited some of the residents and met the director and some of the staff. Next Tuesday we begin the real work. I will be working at this geriatrics center every Tuesday five hours a day for the next 8 weeks.
Well I should end it here. I hope all of you are well, il Humdidulah (by the grace of God).
Scott
P.S. I couldn't upload pictures this time because the internet connection that I get on balcony is really weak and sometimes doesn't work at all. I'll let you know when I have posted some pictures.
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