Arabic Abroad

So you remember yesterday when I said that being out at Ramadan is like being out at Christmas amd that we couldn’t possibly miss out on the experience? Well, if 25 adolescent boys with big sticks and enormous non-foody appetites…

You know that moment when you’ve been lounging on the beach all day, confident in the powers of your factor 50 Soltan, and you wake up from a delightfully warm and sunny nap during which you dried out from your…

Today was the first day in two weeks when we’ve been deliciously inactive. Not a single alarm was set, we read books in bed for an hour after we woke up, we ate a breakfast that we bought the day…

N.B. this is Friday. The WiFi (or WeeFee as we’ve affectionately begun to term it) isn’t reaching me, and frankly, the day was too tiring to get up and locate it. Please bear with. Well, the police didn’t come to…

Oh my goodness guys, bombshell imminent!! I could tell you menial things like the fact that we had ragees for breakfast after making them at cooking club yesterday, or that Billy is feeling better (which is actually good news), but…

Last night, at the same time as deciding to watch another hour of CSI:Las Vegas, we decided that it was absolutely impractical to get up at 6:30 and that we were going to have a lie-in. So even though the…

Considering we’re here to study, we did relatively little today. Finding out this morning that our morning teacher was ill, we then had all morning until 2pm off! Of course, we should have been terribly studious and borne in mind…

After the roaringly successful weekend, full of colour and excitement, and full of memories ans stories, today arrived with little fanfare, with the alarm going off at 6am, and all of us nodding off during breakfast (which was excellent again,…

So our Sunday, yet again, was so so good. I started out majorly impressed with myself by finding that I could still talk to a taxi driver and order a crepe in French, as well as Arabic. Happy days. But…

Bear with me for a long entry guys. You’ll want to sit down with a cup of tea and a custard cream before you start. But trust me, today was well worth writing about. I’m currently lounging on our sofa…