A lovely day

Ah, after rain comes fresher air and a brighter sky. Lovely! Today I got up eeearly to take my dear “wife” (Trude) to the airport. The clock rang at 05:30. A bit early maybe, but what won`t you do for your loved ones? :) After spending every day together for three months it will be strange not to have Trude around for three weeks. But probably it`s healthy for our relationship to have the time to miss eath other a bit. Now I have four days “alone” in Beirut, and then I`ll be home in Norway together with my family. How I`m looking forward to it! Saturday is by the way a working day here in Lebanon, so after the airport mission this early morning I went to the office to execute the tasks of the day. Since I`m traveling on monday I thought it would be nice to spread some Christmas joy to the employees and the volunteers, so I brought some candle lights, some norwegian crackers and our traditional brown cheese. A culinary (?) experience that was well appreaciated. On my way home from work I dropped by a second hand store which is run by this increadibly nice elderly gentleman. We talked about this and that, and nice to see you again, and acctually I dropped by to ask if he had an old guitar to sell. He didn`t, but as it was he gave me his own guitar to borrow with me home. He thought it would be appropriate since I was alone in the appartment now and then had the time to play. He showed me an old and yellowish program for a guitar consert he had done at the American University in the city in 1957, and he told me about how he started playing the guitar in his younger days. What an increadibly nice man! Almost confused from happiness and gratitude I continued my walk home with a well played guitar in one hand, and a beautiful red flower for 3 norwegian kr from the shop at the corner in the other. Tonight I`ll visit some friends, and we`ll eat chicken and enjoy ourselves even more. What a lovely day!