On December 13th we celebrated 4 happy years together. Because we just went to Barcelona last month for business and spent a lot of money we decided to count that as our anniversary trip and not travel this time. This is our third time to spend our anniversary here in this country. (I really keep trying to spell it "anniversery" this is NOT right and very annoying). Anyway, our day started out with some Classical Arabic class at 9:00 a.m. It was as romantic as it sounds. Nothing says "I love you" like perfecting your guttural stops.
Next we moved on to our school holiday party. We were celebrating Christmas and Eid Al Adha which is the festival of sacrifice in Islam and everyone who can afford to will a buy a sheep and sacrifice it. They are remembering when Abraham was going to sacrifice his son (the other one, not the one we believe) but God instead provided a sheep in his place. We are going to a friends house to watch the sacrificing of their sheep this week (more on that later). It was the joining of many cultures (we have least 12 represented in our school) to share food and stories of our holiday's.
Next, we did a little apartment hunting work. While waiting for the concierge I had a lovely chat with this adorable girl. I love talking to kids because I always understand their Arabic. She was telling me about these really hot peppers where she is from and you have to drink lots of water or milk because your mouth is on fire. I wonder if she'll be my language partner?
Next we had a light lunch because of all the food we ate at the party. This place is normally filled with hookah smoke in the evening but it's not too bad if you get there first for lunch. We had delicious falafel and hummus and fresh OJ. I didn't get photos of this, but in the afternoon we went to a Korean art show to support some friends from church.
For our evening out we went to a steak place. We had the best fried garlic calamari of our lives! It was very nice and the waiters had remembered us from when we were there once back in April! All in all, we had good anniversary (just misspelled it again!) and what a strange thought that next year we will be celebrating in America...weird!
On a completely different side note, the next day, Cody highlighted my hair and I am showing off my new spectacles. When choosing my glasses, I was going for something funky, not sure what they wear in terms of eyeglasses in America but people are pretty European with their choice of eye-wear here. Cody is such a good hair dyer. Every since we moved away from my usual hair dying girlfriends, Cody as taken over the role. He's very meticulous in everything he does so he's really good at it. He was little nervous b/c this was his first time to do highlights. Being that the instructions were in French I forgot to wet my hair first, but it still came out pretty good! I also spent the most I have every spent on a haircut here this week. Normally I spend about $5 but this time I spent over $20! Since I am growing my hair out I decided to add some bangs and layers to the front. Anyway that was super-girly explanation so sorry for any of you male readers...if you made this far!
3 comments:
so glad u guys had a good "anniversery". :) And your hair looks great!
Glad ya'll had a nice anniversary! Sounds like a fun day, and mmmmm calamari is SO good! Cody, dude! I have been trying my hand at the whole hair-stylist-thing too bro. I'm trying to learn how to cut Nat's hair. I've done one trim and it turned out ok...Carrie, love the new glasses, very cool, even in America dude. Anways, talk to you later! Bslima!
Paul
Great cut. Great glasses. Great highlights. Maybe Cody can make a little extra cash when he gets back to the states with his new found talent.
Happy Anniversery! ooops--me too, Carrie.
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