Dar al Takwa Hotel
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Lost in Translation
... for anyone who cared (or was paid) to listen to me. At the start of my classes my instructor often tested my vocab; on more than one occasion my response would prompt her to snicker or even burst into laughter . Once she had regained her composure she would calmly say, trying to hold herself together- "you can go ahead and delete that word from your memory." Or sometimes she would stop me, and say "Be very careful with this word- because it sounds ...
Love and travel have in common .....
... Lady of Saydnaya (or Seidnayya , spelling is elastic here) is a tiny dark chapel, walls covered with icons of the Virgin Mary, and pride of place given to a tiny picture, supposedly painted by St Luke. Once this tiny place was - supposedly – second only to Jerusalem – in the days of the Crusaders. Many are the miracles attributed to this one tiny picture by Muslims and Christians alike.
Pondering on travelling. And the difference between this way of life and the ...
Como si no hubiera pasado nada...
... tampoco hemos ido de compras por los zocos de la ciudad antigua… ni siquiera hemos entrado a ningún museo. Nuestra experiencia aquí ha sido con la familia que nos ha alquilado la casa, la amiga generosa de éstos que venía a ponerme la inyección cuando Dani no estaba en casa, los médicos que me atendieron, los taxistas que me llevaban y traían, los tenderos del barrio, los buscavidas que dieron trabajo a Dani en los rodajes y algún que otro ...
First week and all
... a week later school begins.
There is very little to no bureacracy that I encountered whilst doing all of this. Everything is straightforward and definitely very different from the AUC. I remember being sent from one office to another at AUC as nobody knew what was going or, or just did not want to take the responsibility of doing something. -The bursar’s office would refuse to take the fees because it was the accounting department that ...
Coming home to a place we couldn't find
... bus. But the bus was heading out of town, so we hopped off, walked back and argued about which road would take us home. So we cabbed a bit but still couldn't find home. No street names, no address, no communication between us and the locals. The phone wouldn't work and we were lost. Finally we called and were picked up......all in a days work of travel I suppose. And blisters to prove it.
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