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Lost in Translation
... to ____." As a result I'm always careful now when I ask for a plastic bag, or worse when I say that I don't want a plastic bag (I'll leave that to your imagination). Amusingly by changing one letter in the phrase "My mother is a dance teacher" I am now stating that she teaches ass kicking. When I asked my buddy Sharif in Egypt whether anyone greets each-other with "kayf halek?" (how is your life?) I received the familiar amused response, ...
Love and travel have in common .....
... 8221; Travelling, every day, every minutes you see something new. And the mind has to cope! At home, by and large, you wake and know what the day will bring. That life, with its habits, friends, activities, choices is left behind. With travelling the brain needs time to catch up and senses to switch on. The outcome of any situation, even the curve in the road, is unknown. Maybe that is what love and travel have in common – a situation where the outcome is unknown.
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Como si no hubiera pasado nada...
... turista que no hemos vuelto a ver.
Es una ciudad segura donde no se corre el riesgo de ser atracado, insultado, secuestrado… eso sí, además del sirio generoso que no pide un duro por llevarte, por ayudarte, por aconsejarte, por regalarte, hay sirios que intentan sacar provecho. Hay que estar con los ojos abiertos y con la intuición a flor de piel. Los taxistas son la fauna con la que más discusiones hemos tenido. Como europeos que somos ...
First week and all
... for that, but then accounting refused and sent me back to Bursar’s, who then sent me to a lone individual man sitting behind a desk in the corner of the office who actually knew what was going on. Anyhow those are my AUC memories – good memories. After all that bureaucracy **** I really enjoyed my classes, professors and the friends I met, and I pretty much have the same expectations with the University of Damascus.
I also met a ...
Yikes......
ok. so i hope you guys are are appreciating these entries. i feel like they may be minutia-ish/esque. but...i do wanna share these experiences as they are pretty fun and weird and stuff.
soooo today was quite a day. it all started with a 20 cent public transit ride to the embassy to meet up with a certain diplomat i know here. he was to take us to a lil' town called Seidnayya here in Syria for a half day of viewing some christian convents up in the ...
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