So I haven't been able to post for a while. Apparently the entire Internet system in K-town has been down...it's amazing to think that roughly 8 million people have been without Internet for over a week. I guess that's what you get when you have only 2 Internet providers for an entire city, you just never know when they will both have problems. There have been random times when you can catch one or the other working, but even then it's really really slow (as compared to normal, when it's just really slow!)I haven't been able to think of anything good to put on here or anything, so I thought I'd just share a few random things to catch up.
Yesterday, I had an early language class and got back to my apartment around 11. As I was walking back I was thinking to myself 'wow, it's really cool this morning, maybe even bordering on pleasant'. After I was at the apartment and had changed into a tank top & shorts I felt something hit my shoulder and realized that it was sweat and my hair was so soaked that it was actually dripping. It was kind of gross. So I checked the thermometer that we keep handy and, turns out, what I had thought was a 'pleasant morning' was actually 104. It was kind of sad.
Last week, as I was walking to my language lesson, some guy just walking down the road yells out 'Your eyes are more beautiful!' I wanted to yell back 'More beautiful than what? I have sunglasses on!!!' but I didn't.
People keep telling me that my Arabic is very good. It's usually like rickshaw drivers and random people and the conversation usually goes like this (but in Arabic, of course): 'Hello' 'Hello' 'Street 39' 'ok, get in'....we drive a little, then 'turn right here, turn left at that street' 'You speal Arabic very good! very good!' and my response is always 'only a little' But sometimes I'm really tempted to say something like 'yeah, I know' or 'about as good as your English' but I don't think that they would get the sarcasm. It's just kind of ironic, I would never ever think of complimenting someone on their English if they could say hello, how are you, turn here, and goodbye. But here it's like if I know these few things, people think I'm fluent. There's this one guy in the office who only speaks Arabic and he knows that I only speak English and so when he wants to tell me something, he will say it in Arabic, but he'll repeat himself 3 or 4 times....like that's all I need to be able to understand him...repetition.
My current landlord lives right across the hall from me and he is redoing his apartment. It was actually looking pretty nice for a while there, they'd chosen some colors that, maybe I wouldn't have chosen for myself, but for the sandbox where things are usually brown, colors are a step in the right direction. So they have the main room a peach color, one room is a light yellow and then the girl's room is a light purple....and then they painted the door candy-apple red. It looks very nice against the peach....
Life in the Sandbox
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