Pictures of the Sky! Yay!

I know, the title of this post sounds like I'm on something. I'm not. I swear.

It's truly amazing to think that I only have about one month left here. In many ways I want to go home, to see everyone, to experiece all of the 'familiar' things of home, and yet I cannot stop thinking that all of those things I've been thinking about as being from 'home' are going to seem really strange once I'm back. I'm at home here - although I can hardly believe I'm saying it. I find it so hard to imagine that in another month all of these people I've been interacting with on a daily basis, who have really become almost like family to me - the pioneers, my students, the local Baha'is - will all but cease to be a part of my life! People have told me that going home is harder than going to a new place, and I think I am starting to understand why.

We just had a memorial service here for Ahmad Shams, Faramarz and Kia's father who passed away a couple of weeks ago. It was amazing how many people showed up, almost all of whom had never met the man, but came to support their friends. It was really beautiful.

My USB Hard drive has decided its had enough. It's really unfortunate because I had about 50Gb of information on it, and some of it was stuff I got here - although fortunately not very much. My biggest loss is all of my full quality pictures - everything I've taken since I arrived in April. I've been putting copies of almost everything up here on my blog, but most of those have been reduced in size by 50% because of the internet speed here. I'm really hoping that once I get home I, or Western Digital (it's still under warranty) will be able to recover the pictures.

In light of this, all the pictures I'm posting now are full quality...
I apologize for any layout problems, blogs don't handle multiple pictures very well. Complain to blogger, not me ;)