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Today I was going to Yemen. Yes, Yemen. The same place where the USS Cole was bombed in 2000, the same place where the US Embassy was bombed this past September, the same place where pirates are operating nearby in the Gulf of Aden, the same place where two Belgian tourists and a group of Japanese tourists were kidnapped. Yes, this is the Yemen ...

Yesterday was brilliant. My teacher, Adil, invited me to a luch of 'selta' - a sizzling hot dish of meat, vegetables, cereals and stock, spiced with the interesting and piquante fenugreek. We were joined by Andreas (from Spain, another current student) and Patrice, a Frenchman from Perpignan who studied with Adil nearly ten years ago. Patrice's ...

Well, I have reached the end of my first week of study, with two more lessons to go this afternoon. As I am only studying for two weeks, I've decided to stay in Sana'a this weekend and try and revise everything I've covered so far. In class, I have been reading Arabic newspapers which is quite tricky, but I think I'm making pretty good progress....

How to get lost, **** off your hosts, lose all your friends, and get kidnapped Well, randomly leaving the table and wandering off alone in the streets of Sanaa after midnight is a good start--which is what I did, and sometimes I don't know why I do the things that I do. Don't ever do this! You might have to face worse than the This-is-Yemen-and-...

People here question if he is a martyr; many believe he is but explain that all is in the hands of God, for He is the only one who truly knows. Regardless of the skepticism, piles of posters of the martyr are for sale nearly every 100 feet throughout the old city where Saleh presidential posters once lay. As I sift through the pictorial options,...

Short blurbs from my eid holiday: - Lizard crawling across my face while asleep not once, but twice. Sleeping outside shortly followed. - Malaria scare which turned out to be a misdiagnosis - Learning how to gut a fish only to find out later that day that one of the stray cats ran off with the two fish I had gutted. I was quite angry and shouted...

Well, I made it to Yemen. I can already tell that of all the places I have traveled, this is going to be the most eye-opening and probably challenging. When I arrived, after having a mere 3 hours of sleep in addition to roughly a half an hour of dozing off on the plane (which did little to alleviate my sleep deprivation but produced a large pudd...