he taught me how to watch and pray

Happy day, I got a visa!

(Just after it arrived in the mail this morning, I met with the guys in my research group, who all said, "What's the APR? No. Not that kind of Visa. A visa of the three-month, multi-entry, tourist variety. This is SUCH good news, because it would have been a bit, shall-we-say, tedious to arrive at the border and not be able to get one.)