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oh, my family...
my arabic, which is progressing slowly, is a great source of entertainment for my family. my cousins like to make fun of my accent, and my uncle remembers phrases I've cobbled together and repeats them back to me whenever he's in a teasing mood ( Read more... ) -
splish splash
algeria is dirty. very, very dirty. and so am I, in spite of the fact that I showered last night ( Read more... ) -
eebood
this past summer, Kyle gave me the tremendous gift of an iPod full of the best of the best of modern music, filtered through kyle's ears and edited for nora's taste, which I brought with me to Algeria and have introduced to my two college-aged cousins, Ahmed and Nibras. Ahmed, who is already acquainted with Outkast, 50 Cent, Jay-Z and the Black ( Read more... ) -
kemmoun
I had my first bout of stomach sickness the other day. it started early in the morning, and it didn't let up, even after I'd popped my CVS-supplied brand-name stomach-soother. (the culprit, I think, was a cake I'd eaten the day before at a truckstop cafe en route from el bayadh to oran. the cake, or maybe the platter it was served on ( Read more... ) -
live and kicking
dear everybody ( Read more... )