Mohim Awy Awy Day

He loosened my tongue to speak in 95% arabic today at our cooking class , I can't even believe it when i say it. I didn't think it possible, I didn't think they'd understand, and if they did i thought they'd only understand bits and pieces and i'd have a dictionary open the entire time, but no, i used it only twice. And they did, they understood... HE was totally there, and He moved and He spoke...

cooking was fun, and talking afterwards was great!! exciting.

ahhhhhh sooo happy!

I've been laughing alot lately

Yesterday I cooked sour cream chicken enchiladas and.. I'll just say this. My friends wanted the recipe =) Anyways... it was so yummy, but man Mexican food takes a lot of work. It was fun but we were in the kitchen about half od the day for this party. I made hmm like 40 enchiladas, and each tortilla was made "a-mano" with a glass... we had no rolling pin.

Phones- Songs
Anyways... we couldn't stop laughing at our local friend who randomly turned on his cellphone and started playing for us the Sound of Music type of music... and all these random cheesy songs, that he sung to and was so very proud he knew... lol.... (celine dion... celine dion....) the guys here are so "macho" but at the same time are so cheesy, and sensitive... yea.. wierd eh. gotta love it.

LIMO??
Walking back home from the center I teach at, on Valentines day, Nov 4th, here. They have 2 apparantly.... Feb 14th... and their own... Valentines in November! hahah... anyways back to my story... while i was walkgin back home there was a wedding procession.

Car (with Christmas lights... the net kind... all on its windowshield...) honk honk honk, another truck with guys in the back, car, car, taxi, (yes it was part of the procession), car, car, limo (MICROBUS limo....) a microbus with the young ppl playing the tablah (conga type thing) and they were all clapping. Its funny, because I was just wondering how a limo business would do here, and ummm hmm maybe they would go for it... rather than a microbus.. haha... couldnt help but smile.

Deodorant? watch this first...


So I'm in class teaching about health problems and stuff. Deodorant is one of the things in the restroom drawer that we were naming and such. When I tell them point to the deodorant...
they all look at me with confused faces... one of them, class clown, tells me in arabic.." WHAT IS THIS... I DON'T KNOW THIS WORD.." then in english... he tries to say it... and just can't

HAHA.... I HAD TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. oh how I love teaching them. Bless their hearts, lol they had no idea why I was laughing so hard. Their response was exactly as this video. I thought this video was making fun of them because..it seems as if no one would know the existence of deodorant because of the horrible Body odor everywhere you go, especially the metros, or in a cab the air flows back towards you.... and um it picks up his wonderful b.o.
ewww.. but apparantly.. lol... they DONT know it!