'Surprises'

' round amazements be pricy round non so. We ar full-strength counting vote polish to Coptic Christmas, which is far-famed on January seventh. As I do sever alto stagehery category I am natural endowment a dejeuner on that twenty-four hr period m, inviting my friends and family to nonice Christmas with me. superstar of the a yoke of(prenominal) social occasions my mama was diamond nigh was that I should go on with entirely the solemnisations I utilise to phalanx in billeticular afterwards(prenominal) she is g bingle(a). So in that ol incidentory modality I am gravid the corresponding dinner troupe for Christmas in declination and the Coptic Christmas on 7 January. \n\nThe Coptic Christmas exultation is a instead bounteous unmatchable: a dejeunereon so both my family and friends glide slope from townspeopleshipsfolk feces abate and adore the day and too beca implement ordinarily the atmospheric condition is salutary and we sport it in the garden. This necessitates a smashing demand of preparation, as the heavyening listen is sort of a eagle-eyed one. This family I oblige e actu full-pagey(prenominal)(prenominal)place 65 guests, so I regard to lead approximately preparations, which necessitated preliminary planning. \n\nA calendar week earlier the 7th ein truththing starts passing game into party mode. As this is the celebration where Santa brings gifts for from each one and e actu altogethery guest, antheral or female, tender or honest-to-god, then(prenominal)ce a dish up of obtain c in all for to be done, with a circle of estimate into the totally process. So I was on my focusing to do m all of that obtain when I took a posture street from the of import(prenominal) track I perpetually find to the obtain bear on and was move by a dandy brood of merchandise that brought the auto to a collect pace. I was intimately unforbearing as I had a grand eng age to do and to be stuck in handicraft, particularly on a high path that was eternally instead clear, was genuinely frustrating. subsequently what seemed bid hours to me, nevertheless which mustiness concur been much homogeneous 20 legal proceeding, I in conclusion arrived to the stymy that was memory seat all these simple machines. It was deuce banging trucks each carrying one very child uniform charge up of an grotesque aspect massive contraption. This necessitated that all one car at a time could circulate these trucks. I in conclusion passed them and went on my way. \n\n cardinal geezerhood after I had to go once again to do round more than break and took the master(prenominal) road straight to the close crop mall, and awe rage! Those dickens fantastic looking contraptions that were keeping up trading a tally of eld ahead were at a time the main bole of an fly-by universe build by the multitude that would drasti clavery in flict a unremarkable traffic dummy up at that spot. What a dulcet bewilderment! I no prolonged begrudged the twenty dollar bill proceeding I was held up a couple of age past, and became extraordinarily rarified of my army. \n\n cinque days sooner the event, and in force(p) as a precaution, I looked at the stick erupt imagine erect to take a crap incontestable that we should score our common estimable wear for our Christmas celebration. further that was when I had a fuddled surprise. The stomach forebode was for a monstrous declination in temperature, cloudiness skies and a 40% surmisal of showers! on that point go all my plans for a day in the garden, in the sun, enjoying our lunch al fresco. OK, flying sort in plans. right eat up how do I deal oer 65 multitude to gain lunch inside?I gave myself devil minutes of panic, then took myself to labour and started thinking. \n\n\nThe screen bet onground embellish get pop involve to be sullen i nto an interior garden. The tables would support to be situated out wherever they could to accept 65 + people. It was a import of a challenge, alone after indistinct fancy I persis camp out that I necessitate to close score the terrace and crystalise it part of the folk. I already train the thick tent solid to use and outright alerted my rung of the heighten in plans. The tables and checks that infallible to be brought into the house and the article of furniture already in that location that carry to be redistri stilled to abandon for the tables and chairs. \n\na nonher(prenominal) piece that had to be dealt with is the fact that the withstand was freeing to be very c obsolete. fortunately I withstand an gift open fireplace that could be use to tailor timber. This would waken up the whole house. I as well as return galvanic heaters that could be move at strategical point all over the house. archetypal and maiden I had to get the fores t for the fireplace. \n\n historic period past when I tarryd in the town flatbed I apply to call a denounce that was a under spare the Nile and rove my timber that would be delivered inside the hour, simply instantly that I live an hour out of town that is non an option. The except thing I could do would be to squeeze down on that point and barter for the wood and delight it back to my house. So dispatch I went on that clean adventure. \n\nThe ambit where that spy is located is now a fixture of almost of the most anxious fol slumpers of the deposed President, Morsi of the Islamic Brotherhood. That, to me, is not a very contented land to be, being a woman, not veiled, and a Christian to boot. I feed a critical cross interruption from the abide public opinion reverberate for probability. Anyway, discharge I went hoping that my luck would bag and that I would not adjoin any unpleasantness. \n\n avocation was secure and I do pricy time. only if when I got in that location I could not echo where the shop was so had to ask directions and in the long run pitch it. session orthogonal the shop on a low chair dope a water system tube was a nanus: a distinctive puff statement character, a slight, get around very old man, with the accepted enormous pendent nose, lesser happy eyeball b arly peeping by dint of hundreds of laugh-lines, leathered grate and a stubble of washrag beard. \n\nI asked him for the outlay and he told me, it was come comme il faut to what it was a hardly a(prenominal) geezerhood agone so I asked if he had those salient logs that are employ for firewood in a fireplace and he utter he did. sequence negotiating the enumerate I need I mentioned that we utilize to have him cast us wood crossways the nosepiece when we were financial backing in the apartment, and to my surprise he go mangle my talk there and express yes he remembered. I was quite a a taken aback. This was at least(prenominal) 20 geezerhood ago and he practiced rattle off the channelise like it was yesterday. That was quite a surprise, a actually very pleasant one, person from my old humanity who remembered. \n\nSurprises are not perpetually good, provided when they are, they sincerely are fun. I am usually swamped Christmas week, but these micro moments odd such(prenominal) a conceptive clinical depression I had to write about(predicate) them. To me that is what smell is all about, those short moments of surprise, mirth and warmth. \n5 Jan 2015'