Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Finding the light in Egypt



It is 1:05 a.m. and we just finished eating Egyptian pizza and watching the missionary's child belly dance. Egypt never ceases to surprise me. We have had lunch with a priest, visited a orphanage, accidently stumbled into an Egyptian wedding, watched Jason and Adam argue over a gift that they both wanted to buy, but Jason insisted on having the only one in America. Adam deferred and once again we had peace.
Our dorm (which is the only word I can think of to describe it) is another story. We have only had one outlet that worked so we had one lamp for light. The overhead light has never worked. When we tried to power up the computer it blew our only outlet so we have had no light. Today we decided to wash clothes. Our washer is in our bathroom. The only problem is that when you use too much water it starts coming out of the drain on the floor. Luckily for us they supplied us with a full-size spueezie and a mop. The only problem was that the washing machine made the air-conditioner in our room go out and all the other power in both rooms. No problem because they didn't work anyway. After 1 hour of washing we decided to hand wring our clothers and hang them in the closet. We took the rest of the clothes to the little iron man around the corner to wash and iron them for pennies. Egypt--- it is such an adventure!!! Other than that God has moved in some great ways. Oh, by the way I plugged in my receptacle into the wall plug and the overhead light came on... go figure! Ginny Hathorn

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi ya'll, it's good to see some pictures and hear some stories!

Anonymous said...

HELLO ALL. I AM SO GLAD TO HEAR FROM YOU. I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOUR RETURN AND STORIES. MANDY, ALL IS WELL HERE, CRITTERS ARE GREAT!! TANYA