Random thing though, on Christmas Eve a friend came over and we took her home about 10:30 that night. On the drive home we saw a couple of weird things. First there were traffic cops out actually doing their job...I've never seen more organized traffic in my entire time here. Maybe there was some special event that I was not aware of, or maybe they always keep traffic orderly after 10 pm and I'm just not usually out that late so I've been missing it this whole time.
Second, there was a little fake flower market set up in the corner of the graveyard...it was full of Chinese people. We thought that maybe the flowers were real and it was a special market for Christmas Eve but when we got close we could see the glitter and the fake rain drops on each flower. We were really disappointed but I guess it serves us right for getting our hopes up...we should have known better
Third, there was a santa at this outdoor cafe and there was a backdrop and a photographer and people were taking their pictures with him. I know it's probably not weird to all of y'all who have been doing your Christmas shopping in a country where there's a Santa in every mall, but around here we don't have Santa Clauses b/c people don't really celebrate Christmas. Except for on this Christmas Eve there was the real santa claus taking pictures with people and then we also saw 4 life-size, fake ones in shop windows...it was really strange.
Here I am with a new little friend. Baby goats are really pretty cute and I like playing with them. Notice his momma has a bra on in the background?
A friends mom on the first day of the Eed. She sat next to us while we learned how to braid. 
The school out in the camp offers women's adult education classes. They teach them how to read and how to sew and other practical things. They also do a tie-dye class, which they call 'tie and dye'. They invited me to their sale/show and tell when the 4 week class was over. Here's a pic of a few of the scarves that my friends made.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas. I'm supposed to plan a New Years Eve party. I've known about it for about 2 weeks but I forgot until a friend last week was like 'hey, we should do something for new year's eve' and I was like 'oh...oh yah, I'm supposed to be planning a party.'
In Arabic they call New Years the 'head of the year'. It's strange to learn things in Arabic that don't translate directly into Arabic...after a while you start to say it in English like it translates into Arabic and things come out weird. For example, last week I asked my roommate where her friends were going on their 'honey month'. She answered and the conversation continued until 5 minutes later when she realized that I said honey month instead of honey moon and she didn't even notice.
So Happy Head of the Year!!!
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