Thank you, lorente, for your kind welcome. Learning a new language makes me a little nervous, but I shouldn't let that keep me from experience something wonderful. I'm a bit shy for chatting on skype right now, with not knowing any Russian. I'm teaching myself the alphabet right now using Livemocha.com You can always send me messages, but I'd like to add you to my skype contact list. My skype name is "gersh601" ...I hope that right.