that's so that's so cool I love that you're able to do that can you tell me a little bit about the process in the class it's like how many courses like you know like just a little bit of the class that you

took so it's an American guy called Justin Prim who hosts the course in Lyon There's other courses in Europe too, but I investigated a bit and I think if anybody else wants to start passing stones, I haven't tried the others, but I think it might be one of the better courses because you learn the basics and you can go home and you can start cutting and practice and become better.

And I know some of the other courses are so specialized that you cut a stone and you have a nice stone, but you actually haven't learned the actual mechanics behind it.

So the way that this course worked, I think we were six people attending the course, and we all passed it on the same Sri Lankan or Ceylon machine.

And that's the one I bought from my own studio as well, so I was familiar with it when I came back home.

And the way the course is made is that you cut three stones over the two weeks.

And then every morning you meet in and there's talk for one and a half, two hours about the historical teaching of gem cutting.

Can you tell me a little bit about that?