My next goal: The Shady Buses

So shady...because, there's like no route system, I'm tryin to figure out where they go. They have like multiple numbers on them and then like a little wittle sign that says I think where they go... but by the time I sound it out and figure it out its gone, and u kinda have to jump on them like that guy there.. ppl hang out from them lol they get packed sometimes.

I got on one, with the help of a nice lady, after a police guy was being rude to me, he told me everything BUT what I asked him about. sighhh.... I think she felt sorry for me, we were on the bus and she asked someone about what was the best stop for where I wanted to go, and this started a huge conversation about where everyone thought I should get off. This little old man was insistent on this one stop and everyone else was like NO and he was like YES! Hahah and I was in the middle of it all just listening... praying that I would just get to where I needed to get, without the whole world knowing that I was a foreigner who had no Idea where she was going, bcuz thats when bad stuff happens!

Anyways... it was FUN, I'm gonna start riding random buses to see where they go because that'll be the only way I learn the system...plus I'll save some big money, riding the PPL'S BUS!

They Don't Believe I'm Mexican Now...YES!

We'll see how long that lasts, myabe today was just a special day. 

I was at the bazaar where lots of tourists go for souvenirs and its like a game for the vendors to figure out where u'r from, they've always kinda figured me out. But today, I went with a friend and they guessed she was from India, she's like no we're mexicans, and they asked her, and her (as in me) where is she from? She's mexican too... and they were like No, No she's not, and there was an officer there too and he was like... NO, tisk tisk tisk, she is not, she is from Khalif, which is like a city in Yemen I think, an Arab country, and the guy was like, she speaks good Arabic... 

So anyways.... I'm happy that the little I spoke, they thought I was a native Arab speaker... HA... YES!

Macaroni Fish...I can't Breaf

So everytime I go to my language tutors home, I walk through a long  windy alley market, where I can find everything from hangers, matches, strawberries, eggplants, to eel.. and fish =/

They don't look very good.... and I would only buy fish from there if there were no veggies and fruits left...BUT anyways... at my tutors house, guess what was for dinner?! Macaroni Fish... because its thin... like macaroni, is what she told me. 

Most of it was bone... and I'm just not that great with fish and bone... long story short, they did kinda make fun of me for not knowing how to eat it... because  I was being cautious and thus slow, and I got a bone stuck in my throat, they laughed... and I my eyes were tearing because I had a bone in my throat! 

Anyways... after like  4hours i finally couldn't feel it anymore il humdulilah... oh and they were like dont mind the bones, their so small... its not a big deal.. and i was like... oh yes it is! If i can feel it... ummm and its poking me... its a big deal =)

but i'm alive... after eating the fishy fish. PTL 

It was NOT an Itsy Bitsie Teenie Weenie Polka Dot skirt

NOTE TO SELF .... dont wear skirts on a windy day. Or just don't wear them period....Unless its like to my ankles and its a stiff skirt. This will save you from tragedies and stares. (in addition to the normal ones you always get)

So it's hot and I decided a skirt would be better than jeans today, plus I felt like dressing up a little bit. Ok so.... all was well until I got off the metro, on my way home, the wind was blowing mightily and I was praying that G would control the winds so that ummm my skirt would stay where it needed to! It was not short at all, the pic there is just to help visualize looks very similar but my skirt was longer, it was appropriate length, but it IS from america, so.... its light, most skirts here are heavy material. The non-majority girls wear shorter skirts so it wasn't unusual to see me in a skirt to my calves. Anyways, that was my little disclaimer... dont judge me ;)

Ok so I think....I hope, that I managed to go up a flight of stairs, across the bridge, and down another flight without anything too tragic or revealing happening, but this little kid noticed and well he's a kid....anyways, let me just get to the nice part.... YES THERE IS ONE....there always is.

I asked an older lady, she was chubby and short, (just helping you get a mental picture)  if she could walk with me. She knew why I needed her, she didn't ask me anything, She took my arm and walked right behind me, to help me with the wind. Sigh.... then she whispered in my ear how the little boy was trying to look under, but I was wearing shorts, but still in this culture shorts are like underwear. fyi...BY little boy I'm just trying to make things sound nicer, he's old enough to know what he's doing. 

Anyways... I'm glad I got in a taxi and got home and that once again the Father always puts someone nearby to come to my rescue! AND that it was just a little bit of torture but soon I was home.

Its a cute skirt too.... what a shame!

Grey Skies

Wow, so today it was hot, and the sky was grey. Not a very bright day, it was a little gloomy.

And like i said before, it doesnt rain in the desert. So to my conclusion, the sky is grey because of pollution, did i tell you tha by living here its like a smoke a pack of cigarretes a day?

Anyway, My friend said it was like 100 degrees, but actually I doubt that it was 100, more like 80, yes it felt like a hair dryer was blowing at my face, but I hope she's right because then that means I'll be fine in the summer, because it can't get much hotter. or.....can it? oh...oops...AND.... I just confirmed online, yea she was right its 104 degrees. No wonder I was so lethargic!!! Today just wasn't a very good day. 

I was just not getting Arabic today with my tutor. There was like a mental block. Bless her heart. My eyes were shutting. I wish I could just learn it through osmosis. 

Oh Arabi, ana mish bahebik deluwati....

BUT.... There's always something nice each day! To my beautiful surprise I received a call from my lovely friend in India, and that brightened up my day. It made my looong ride in the taxi pleasurable. =) lol is that a word??? 

"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Rom 12:12

The only one in the desert watching the MAVS game

I stayed up one time  like till 5 am, to watch my lovely mavs beat the spurs many a times =) I miss basketball games, but love that I had live streaming online!! I dont mind staying up late once in a while for some basketball!! I'm excited about Football Season too... im going to have to introduce it to my friends here. Basketball was too foreign...