october 2006
from my shoobak.
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where we can go to dry our clothes.
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mt. qassioun from a cab.
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the masjid near the us embassy. can you spot megaphones?
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iftar at allison's.
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the ladies righttoleft: allison, lizz, zoe.
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yummy. i don't know what it is.
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the ladies righttoleft: fulla, jodi, fulla.
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turkishcoffee & orange blossoms.
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abujodi entertains us while umjodi follows the qur'an with her tv set.
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he can talk the talk but he can he walk the walk? the answer, for today, was most certainly NOT. trying to weave in and out of cars, beeping and honking, following owais was harder to do (the man has experience in karachi, so this was a piece of pie for his legs). harder than it looked that is. walking through dmsq on the way back from allison's was the best accident you could really hope for. we thought we had hitched a breadbus ride from almuhajareen to baramka but instead we found ourselves on our way to babtouma for a little oldcity action. naw, not like the oldcity in phila, but the same idea i guess insofar as it was: not part of the plan, so stan gets us out just in time for us to miss the red bread headed to bed. colors fooled us. 3 shalaaners cruisin for bruisin with tight shirt midriff expose. we had been jumping out of the way of busses for a good long time, cars too, drums on the right: hijabbed chica with "if your cute i'm single" T. a real gooser. owais is mad i called him out from near death, but i'm still learning to not to lose my own leg, which is chewed on by a car txi who gives me this _look_. a quick rollie with rino from roma in our greatoutdoors - jabreel and i talk about politix in libya and arabs in chad & mali. i didnt take too much time to try out our westernish john (the similarities are striking). floss & brush conk cometh dreams of early day hoped for greatly "hope you'll become well." really refreshing to have dinner with three beautiful ladies (old friends) and two new ones (jodi & umjodi). hope this is something that can happen often (abjodi seemed happy enough to offer his two phone lines, he must be serious about me callin them up for a homecooked meal). umjodi was a revelation in her qur'an study juxt with the tv version. alleeson really got lucky with her queen latifah - cant say no to turkic coffee & sweet things. pix get a glimpse of this mix which zoe says is a strange event. boys and girls together - it's revolution - just like those orange flowers i ate *more lamb brain PLEASE* ghetto story at the aids center under construction: to study arabic at the university you first have to talk to the man in the basement of a destroyed building who will bruise your arm for two weeks for a small price. che in arabic if you can believe. my spy pen doesn't pass inspection at the american embassy - the guard doesnt understand how it works but hes smart enough to know that i shouldnt bring it pass the first gate. no sweat. at least no international news @ my spot - though i wouldn't be surprised to hear some more reciting round 3 w/snare during conk.