So I know that I just put up a post but a lot of things have happened in the last couple of weeks! Two Fridays ago Norris and I got to lead worship at church on Friday night. It was a night of just singing and celebrating. We love that we have been given this path at HCC. We feel so blessed that we have the ability to meet all the different people at the church. They are from all parts of the world and they all bring something different to the table.
We have two guys that are really good friends of ours that have just learned that their Mom or Dad have a brain tumor. It is just great to see how they are able to take this and pray for it. It is great to see how HCC has come around them to help them. We got some news about one of our friends Mom and her cancer is very slow moving and benin. It is such an answer. He will be home this summer and he will be get to be there for the surgery. The other one was not as good of news. His dad has a very advance form of cancer and has been given about 12 weeks to live. But it is great to listen to him talk about his dad. He knows that he will either be healed here on earth or when he gets to heaven.....It is neat to see how he has such faith in the one we know! It is interesting how when these things happen it only brings you closer to HIM!
I have been learning that I have to believe in Who HE Is not What He does. What a hard lesson to understand. I am not sure I will ever be able to completely understand, or comprehend that! I am trying. I want to believe in Who He is. He is compassionate and loving and just and powerful. How wonderful to have that in our lives. How can I sit here and try to understand what He does. I can't see the whole picture, only He can..... How presumptuous that I would say He should do something different or change what He has done...... But how easy it is to do that! Focus on having a heart like Him.....read 1and 2 sam. to get a great example of that!!!!!!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Coffee?
So today Norris and I thought that we would take a simple little walk to the mall and grab some dinner. Well we think that Costa Coffee has the best caesar salads in Cairo. So we love to go and get some salads from there. Usually Norris can get some grading done and it is a nice time that we can hang out. Well today as we were walking up to the mall we noticed there were a lot more young teenagers then normal. Now this is a place full of children so we just kind of thought there must be a holiday we missed! When we finally waded through the groups of boys and finally made it to Costa we could barely even hear. We decided to leave after dinner.......if we could just get the check! Well we asked for the check and realized that they charged us for a different size drink than they gave us. When we showed it to the waiter he could not understand what we were saying. We even showed him the drinks we had to let him know. Finally Norris took the guys pen and wrote it all down for him!!!! He still did not get it so our waiter went to get a manager. Now all they needed to do was take away 20 LE......
When the manager finally came he gave us an estimate us to how much we owed. He just wanted us to pay 100LE and call it even....but we did not owe 100 LE..... Norris was not about to pay 10-15 LE more than we needed to. The manager said it was going to take a long time to get the bill back. So Norris just looked at the manager and said.."Tell you what you have 5 minutes and then I am gone" Miraculously we got the bill in about 10 seconds!!!!! Norris does not freak out to often but this was just one of those moments........ to funny!!!!!!!!!!
As my friend says..Peace and Love from the Sandbox
When the manager finally came he gave us an estimate us to how much we owed. He just wanted us to pay 100LE and call it even....but we did not owe 100 LE..... Norris was not about to pay 10-15 LE more than we needed to. The manager said it was going to take a long time to get the bill back. So Norris just looked at the manager and said.."Tell you what you have 5 minutes and then I am gone" Miraculously we got the bill in about 10 seconds!!!!! Norris does not freak out to often but this was just one of those moments........ to funny!!!!!!!!!!
As my friend says..Peace and Love from the Sandbox
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Scary moments
Well yesterday was an interesting day at the Ham household. Saturday afternoons we tend to wind down and get ready for school. We try to get lunches ready for the week and make sure we have gotten all the stuff done we wanted for the weekend. It is nice not to have too much stress going into the week.
To say the least yesterday was not to be one of those Saturday's! I had gone out with some girls to have a jewelry brunch which was so much fun! One of my friends was selling jewelry with all the money going to Ugandan women who have lost their husbands and jobs because of fighting and other reasons. Where was I ...Oh yes Saturday........ Well on Saturday afternoon I was messing around with my camera, I am trying to figure out new shots I can take with the camera, and I was sitting out on our porch. Norris was getting a little sick of me taking pictures of his face! I love reading "The pioneer woman"....She teaches so much about cameras and all sorts of things. Well I decided to go outside and try some of the stuff she had mentioned on her blog. While I was on the porch, there was a funny smell coming from downstairs. I did not really think anything of it. I came back inside and then I heard some yelling. I noticed that it was not a man yelling for recycling but it was different. So I went back outside. I started listening to what they were saying and it sounded like they were saying"Fire!"
Now I am not sure what the Arabic word is for fire but I was convinced. It did not take long. Well Norris said he would check it out and I knew it was not good when he came back in and told me to grab my camera and the computer. I kind of started to freak. I did a good job of keeping it together......at least for me. We ran around the house and got all that we thought we needed.
Norris said that when he leaned over the side to look off the porch he saw flames coming from the side of the building. Luckily when we got down stairs there were people there with a bunch of hoses to put the fire out. We think someone was smoking and they threw the bud into some dry leaves and they caught on fire.
After it was all over we were so grateful. We now it was not a bad fire. We are so blessed they got the fire out before it got worse. The people on the first floor were also very blessed that it was not worse. I am so thankful for the men that were walking by that saw the flames and alerted the building!!!!!!!!!!!!
To say the least yesterday was not to be one of those Saturday's! I had gone out with some girls to have a jewelry brunch which was so much fun! One of my friends was selling jewelry with all the money going to Ugandan women who have lost their husbands and jobs because of fighting and other reasons. Where was I ...Oh yes Saturday........ Well on Saturday afternoon I was messing around with my camera, I am trying to figure out new shots I can take with the camera, and I was sitting out on our porch. Norris was getting a little sick of me taking pictures of his face! I love reading "The pioneer woman"....She teaches so much about cameras and all sorts of things. Well I decided to go outside and try some of the stuff she had mentioned on her blog. While I was on the porch, there was a funny smell coming from downstairs. I did not really think anything of it. I came back inside and then I heard some yelling. I noticed that it was not a man yelling for recycling but it was different. So I went back outside. I started listening to what they were saying and it sounded like they were saying"Fire!"
Now I am not sure what the Arabic word is for fire but I was convinced. It did not take long. Well Norris said he would check it out and I knew it was not good when he came back in and told me to grab my camera and the computer. I kind of started to freak. I did a good job of keeping it together......at least for me. We ran around the house and got all that we thought we needed.
Norris said that when he leaned over the side to look off the porch he saw flames coming from the side of the building. Luckily when we got down stairs there were people there with a bunch of hoses to put the fire out. We think someone was smoking and they threw the bud into some dry leaves and they caught on fire.
After it was all over we were so grateful. We now it was not a bad fire. We are so blessed they got the fire out before it got worse. The people on the first floor were also very blessed that it was not worse. I am so thankful for the men that were walking by that saw the flames and alerted the building!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Ants are Taking Over
Well this weekend was going to be one of rest and relaxation. Quickly that turned into stress and frustration!!!!! Ants were taking over the world, it felt like. I guess it was just our kitchen but that is bad enough! There is nothing more disgusting than having ants all over. I definitely made Norris go out for dinner on Friday because I could not take the ants! We had a nice little bug bombing party but sadly that did not seem to work. Instead it brought all the ants from the kitchen into the living room! So all day Saturday was dedicated to cleaning off all parts of the kitchen that had been sprayed and the dishes that were sprayed and the living room!!! I am pretty sure I lost some brain cells but I guess it might have been worth it because for NOW they are gone. Moved out probably just long enough for us to put everything back. I guess I will take one day of a ant free kitchen!!!!!
Does anyone know how ants multiply??? It seems that there are just millions of them all of a sudden! Out of no where they just turn up to destroy sanity!!!!!!!!!!
But I can say that I am so blessed to have a place that ants can come. At least I have a home for them to enter. At least I have food they can get into. At least I can go to the store to buy new apples! Priase Him who takes care of our every need! HE is great and awesome and a wonderful creator even of the little things in life!!!!
Does anyone know how ants multiply??? It seems that there are just millions of them all of a sudden! Out of no where they just turn up to destroy sanity!!!!!!!!!!
But I can say that I am so blessed to have a place that ants can come. At least I have a home for them to enter. At least I have food they can get into. At least I can go to the store to buy new apples! Priase Him who takes care of our every need! HE is great and awesome and a wonderful creator even of the little things in life!!!!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Easter 2
Saturday= Starbucks. Well it quickly turned into Zamalek Saturday. I woke up super early because I am on a schedule. Well we did not really have much to eat in the apartment so I convinced Norris that we should go out to breakfast. Well Norris remembered this great place on Zamelek called "Arabica". It has the best stuffed Fatir ever. Fatir is the incredible bread that is flaky and warm and fabulous! Well we invited some of our friends to come and join us for the hour. After we arrived at the restaurant we put in our orders. After about on hour we received our drinks! After about 2 hours we still had not received our food. Luckily there was paper on the table and crayons that we could draw with, on the table! So we started drawing what our feet looked like.
Norris definitely won the weirdest feet award!
Then after about 3 hours Norris talked to the owner and finally we got our food. It was excellent! It was a long wait but it was well worth it!!!!!! After we finished our food the owner came and told us we could order any drink we wanted for free, so it worked out!!!!!!
Later that afternoon we did walk to a coffee shop and grab a little pick-me-up from Starbucks and it was delicious as always!
Sunday= Singing. Well Easter Sunday was awesome. We met at this cemetery in Cairo in front of a beautiful cross and had our service. We have communion and a time of fellowship after. It was soooo awesome. Norris and I were lucky enough to be able to help with the singing and it was a really neat time. We started at 6 and ended at about 8 then had a time of hanging out with friends.
Norris and I were then pretty tired and came back home and took a nap so we changed the title of the day to SLEEPING Sunday. Then later on that evening we had another service that Norris and I got to lead and it was soooooo much fun. It was pretty funny because it was our new pastor's second week in Cairo. Talk about diving in. They had no time to adjust. They got here at the busy season and started rockin' out! It was neat to see their excitement and what they will bring to HCC!
Monday= Cleaning. This one is the only day we could not make match with the day of the week. It was a great day though. Don't you just love those days when you get up and clean the house and you can feel so organized and refreshed? That was our Monday. We cleaned our whole house and just hung out around the house. We watched a couple movies and just had fun Norris and Angie time. I LOVE THOSE DAYS! They are my favorite. When we can just talk about our future and dream about what might be brought along our path. It can sometimes be so fun to not know where we are going to be directed. It is ok though because HE knows. He will take us where we need to go and protect us along the way! YAY! Gotta love HIM!
Then after about 3 hours Norris talked to the owner and finally we got our food. It was excellent! It was a long wait but it was well worth it!!!!!! After we finished our food the owner came and told us we could order any drink we wanted for free, so it worked out!!!!!!
Later that afternoon we did walk to a coffee shop and grab a little pick-me-up from Starbucks and it was delicious as always!
Sunday= Singing. Well Easter Sunday was awesome. We met at this cemetery in Cairo in front of a beautiful cross and had our service. We have communion and a time of fellowship after. It was soooo awesome. Norris and I were lucky enough to be able to help with the singing and it was a really neat time. We started at 6 and ended at about 8 then had a time of hanging out with friends.
Norris and I were then pretty tired and came back home and took a nap so we changed the title of the day to SLEEPING Sunday. Then later on that evening we had another service that Norris and I got to lead and it was soooooo much fun. It was pretty funny because it was our new pastor's second week in Cairo. Talk about diving in. They had no time to adjust. They got here at the busy season and started rockin' out! It was neat to see their excitement and what they will bring to HCC!
Monday= Cleaning. This one is the only day we could not make match with the day of the week. It was a great day though. Don't you just love those days when you get up and clean the house and you can feel so organized and refreshed? That was our Monday. We cleaned our whole house and just hung out around the house. We watched a couple movies and just had fun Norris and Angie time. I LOVE THOSE DAYS! They are my favorite. When we can just talk about our future and dream about what might be brought along our path. It can sometimes be so fun to not know where we are going to be directed. It is ok though because HE knows. He will take us where we need to go and protect us along the way! YAY! Gotta love HIM!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Easter :-)
Norris and I decided not to travel anywhere for the holiday weekend this year! Last year we headed to Greece but this year we thought we would spend it in Egypt. There is plenty going on with our church family so we knew we would be busy. We decided to have an alliteration weekend for the days of the week.
Thursday= Tivoli Dome
Friday= Felucca
Saturday= Starbucks
Sunday= Singing
Monday= Movie
Now being in Egypt this long this dod not work out as planned. Egypt always knows what is "better", or what will actually happen.
Thursday= Tivoli Dome. Well there is this new place by our apartment called the Tivoli Dome. It is filled with all sorts of restaurants. There is a "Outback Steakhouse", "Popeye's Chicken", and about 800 different coffee shops in a tiny little space. It is a really nice place! There is a fountain with water and just a great place to hang outside! Well Norris and I decided that we did not want to spend the money for "outback" so we decided to walk to the mall and eat at the "Rain Forest Cafe". Well after the 30 minute walk we got to the restaurant only to find that it was closed.....FOR GOOD! We were sooooooooo sad. So we had to go to "On the Border", (our new favorite restaurant). We had a great time in our normal booth and a great chat for the 30 minutes there and back!
Friday= Felucca. Well Friday was an awesome day! It started with a great time at HCC for the Good Friday Service. Then we took a 30 minute nap and then headed over to Maadi. For those of you who do not know, Maadi is close to the Nile River. Well to go on a Nile Felucca it is not that expensive. The problem is it is hard to make change. All we had was 100LE and we did not need to give that away. Magically if we handed them that bill they really would not have any change! Well there is a "Friday's" right next to the dock where you get boats so we thought if we could run over and grab a drink than we could break our 100 and plus we could have a nice cold soda for our boat ride! Well we forgot to factor in that fact that "Friday's" would not have to go drinks! Well needless to say after the hour we wasted we finally were on our way in the Felucca! Except there was one MAJOR issue! There was NO wind. If you have ever been on a sail boat you know you can not get far if you have no wind! Well after about 50 minutes we had moved about 5 feet from shore! Norris and I were laughing soooo hard. The poor man in charge of our felucca was sooooo bored he fell alseep over the rudder!
Well after that we made it back to shore and met some friends and went to this fabulous Korean Restaurant "Gaya"!!! IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD! I can't wait to go again. We ended the evening playing cards at our friends. We learned a new game called Monopoly deal! If you have never played you MUST!
Thursday= Tivoli Dome
Friday= Felucca
Saturday= Starbucks
Sunday= Singing
Monday= Movie
Now being in Egypt this long this dod not work out as planned. Egypt always knows what is "better", or what will actually happen.
Thursday= Tivoli Dome. Well there is this new place by our apartment called the Tivoli Dome. It is filled with all sorts of restaurants. There is a "Outback Steakhouse", "Popeye's Chicken", and about 800 different coffee shops in a tiny little space. It is a really nice place! There is a fountain with water and just a great place to hang outside! Well Norris and I decided that we did not want to spend the money for "outback" so we decided to walk to the mall and eat at the "Rain Forest Cafe". Well after the 30 minute walk we got to the restaurant only to find that it was closed.....FOR GOOD! We were sooooooooo sad. So we had to go to "On the Border", (our new favorite restaurant). We had a great time in our normal booth and a great chat for the 30 minutes there and back!
Friday= Felucca. Well Friday was an awesome day! It started with a great time at HCC for the Good Friday Service. Then we took a 30 minute nap and then headed over to Maadi. For those of you who do not know, Maadi is close to the Nile River. Well to go on a Nile Felucca it is not that expensive. The problem is it is hard to make change. All we had was 100LE and we did not need to give that away. Magically if we handed them that bill they really would not have any change! Well there is a "Friday's" right next to the dock where you get boats so we thought if we could run over and grab a drink than we could break our 100 and plus we could have a nice cold soda for our boat ride! Well we forgot to factor in that fact that "Friday's" would not have to go drinks! Well needless to say after the hour we wasted we finally were on our way in the Felucca! Except there was one MAJOR issue! There was NO wind. If you have ever been on a sail boat you know you can not get far if you have no wind! Well after about 50 minutes we had moved about 5 feet from shore! Norris and I were laughing soooo hard. The poor man in charge of our felucca was sooooo bored he fell alseep over the rudder!
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Tired?????
So poor Norris has been doing sooooooo much work these past few months. He is taking classes and teaching classes and trying to help the school become a better place, leading music at HCC and being a husband. That is A LOT! Well one of our favorite snacks to make is homemade popcorn on the stove, we do not have a microwave. It is really tasty! Well when I make it for Norris I do not salt it because he likes it with way more salt that I do. I prefer to taste my popcorn he prefers to taste the salt! Well our salt dispenser is the giant container we bought at the beginning of the year. The other day we made a comment that it has lasted us forever. We bought a new salt a little while ago thinking that we would be running out soon but it is still going like a champ! Well at dinner a couple of nights ago we could not find the opened salt container. We looked and looked and I just assumed Norris had used all of it and thrown it away. He could not remember either, so we got out the new salt and life was good! That night I went to wash my face before bed and when I opened up the cabinet, there staring me in the face was the salt!
Poor Norris had put the salt in the bathroom not the kitchen! It was too funny! We were laughing sooooo hard! Well Norris is working hard and this weekend to sleep will do him a lot of good! What a funny guy! Gotta love him!
Poor Norris had put the salt in the bathroom not the kitchen! It was too funny! We were laughing sooooo hard! Well Norris is working hard and this weekend to sleep will do him a lot of good! What a funny guy! Gotta love him!
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