october 2006
rebuilted by king al nasser in 825h/1227m.
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door to the christian quarter of bab touma.
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typical old city.
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righttoleft: francesca, anna, gebreel, rino.
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i got her # :)
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at the bayt hanging out with (right2left) lizz, owais, allison
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allison & gebreel
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sharing stories about sept. 12th
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woke up and rocked some pistachio bars finally in the afternoon -- bought the tintin issue where he discovers a mushroom from another planet (a real classic) in the classical the language the arabic. friendly bookkeeper happy to have some int'l business -- 150 SY is a cheap price to pay for a tintin. catch myself chugging a bottle of water in public (haram for the ram) but no sweat, i take my kill to the upstairs office -- sleep in the afternoon is much necessary due to russle's cold, but i recover with a little help from jabreel and his well established brother. i realize i haven't checked the news all week - hopefully W is keeping his heat holstered. rino hooks up the party for the night in old city (more and more like old city in phila) where we land with a group of roman college kids, who are partying like wed night was a saturday night (a german dj -- seriously lame), oaf from berlin thinks my arabic is too good for me not to be arab - i tell him i get my cred from the streets of wphila. this guy is a fatboy but i had to respeck that he could tweet like a baghdad. "respeck." luckily fatboy wanders off to germany an me an the italian chick get some eye-to-eye. a little italian never hurt no one (maybe 'cept napolean) tho she hates the place she's stayin -- too much english, and no love for the religion of peace. even though she says that's not what she came here for, she seems happy enough to sing vasco with me & nurse her italian w/suzanne. i'm a legista for a night, which makes me more italian than them, and they are pretty floored with jawz dropt that they're campari-ing with an american venitian. but those perdadors need to drink a little more nargilah and need to eat fewer freedomfries. still i ended up with irene's digits in my NOT working cellphone. if love is strong, thens by golly the phone will work