US Exchange Student Gets The Skinny On Weight Loss In Egypt
02/28/2008
17-year-old Jonathan McCullum of Maine decided to spend his junior year of high school on an American Field Service-arranged exchange trip to Alexandria, Egypt. While there for the school year, McCullum gained first-hand experience in the Coptic Christian lifestyle, but lost 58 pounds; Copts fast for more than 200 days out of the year. While young Jonathan's ordeal was rather negative, we do want to point out that there are good Copts and bad Copts. Read up on all the particulars here.
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