Yep winter is winter where ever you are. Africa is NOT the hottest place in the world (at least in my experience) some places here get even below zero C. You might think that this is warmer than winter in Europe but back in Russia we have heating facilities in houses and warm clothes. Here we have purchased a gas heater and now we refill tank every month to get ourselves warm. Sometimes I look at the fish in aquarium and think how lucky they are to have always +24. You know what to do when you are freezing? you need to take hot bath or shower and jump right into bed. However, outside seems to be warmer than inside.

Yesterday we witnessed the one-time-in-the-life selebration: the Olympic torch was carred through the Cape Town and we were there! We seen the olympic torch with our own eyes! Well, we made a little video about this happening and a few still pictures during this selebration. One of these pictures is here. There were lots of famous South African people carrying the torch and thousands of Cape Townians gathered alone the way of runners. Really, this type of selebration can be seeng only once in a life time.

After long thinking and different considerations we decided to cancel our medical insurance and right after we did so, our financial situation improved. The insurance system in South Africa is more about collecting money from clients than real coverage aid. The policies of the insurance tend to change and become worth and worth on client. After we called the last time questening insurance agent on some of the specifics of the coverage, we realized that we will actually have to pay ourselves for our needs and then, after some time insurance company will see if the procedure that I payed for was really nessesary or I could servive without it? If I could servive without some procedures, these procedures will not be covered. After these explanations the only right desision was to cansel the insurance.

Just when I was thinking I'm free, I realised how deep was my mistake. Two servers on our base that I'm responsible for probably heard my thoughts that I'm finally free from all work, and decided to make me busy at one day. Well, these monsters just decided to stop working. I sorted out the one of them with the thought in mind that I have to do something with the network card in it, but the other one is just do not do it's work. I did all possible things but it still didn't work. Finally I just restored the system to early point and it started to work. However, I'm quite sure now that I have to format the drive there and reinstall everything since the are too much garbage on that machine. I was extreamly busy with these machines last two days.

Another news: It's more surprise than a news. Recently I was interested in the number of credits that I received during my studies in different schools of YWAM and now I know for sure - I have 77 registered credits towards my degree.