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My life as it stands

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... a break dancing/ rap thing. Yessir. In Yemen. Anyway, Joseph (aka Yousof) called and said he had two extra tickets besides the one for him and myself. Anyway I asked the new kid, Paul, if he wanted to come he said fo' shizzle (okay, not really- that's just my spin) but it turned out later that his placement test took to long so I made the trek to- wait for it- Coffee Trader.
I chatted with the taxi driver who was totally chill. He practiced his English and I ...

Here's 2--3 Weeks Worth of Blog

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... well
sans the kids hunting you down with their wheelbarrows... there was a
complete lack of verdure, and literally the whole town is ONE color.
I've never seen a place act as a complete downer. I can appreciate
the history but if I lived there my bi-polar would probably cause me
to spontaneously combust to get away from the dismal-ness
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawkaban)


We
worked our way back down the mountain and eventually up ...

White bread, qat, and sweat pants

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... so here I go:
Going to sleep: Everyone thinks I'm mildly ridiculous because I think a city staying open until 10 or 11 is late but when you're used to a city closing up at 6, you are allowed to be in awe. But, in other words, that means that I can still hear some hustle and bustle when I go to bed. Not the bad kind of noise. Just background. One noise I love to hear though is the call to prayer. Or the myriad of calls to prayer. Sana'a ...

Mango juice!

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... longer than a month and I bought a phone card for my mumtaz (awesome) phone.

Today:
I got owned by Arabic. And I met a nice Yemeni in the YCMES business English program. We're going to meet up twice a week and I'm going to correct his English and he my Arabic.

Tomorrow I'll be more fantastic and in depth. Annnnnnddddddd there's going to be some fun stuff to write about tomorrow.

Until later.
Hannah
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Not my fault this is late, the internet was down

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... and I've watched women
haggle with the men shopkeepers for see-through bras.




The one thing that you can't quite
forget is that there is some warfare in the north of the country. You
see the giant (and seemingly new) fighter jets taking off from the
airport. When flying in I saw the huge military camouflage
helicopters.




We wandered around quite a bit taking
in the sights. We wandered into this sort of ...

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