Marhaba from sunny Syria. Having had monsoon-like rain this week and loads of thunder, today is really lovely. Since Friday is the equivalent of our Saturday, we have been taking it easy. Mr A played football this morning (and claims he scored ‘the goal of the game’). He’s been coughing with exhaustion ever since. We have been sitting in the sun in our garden watching the three tortoises that have appeared. It seems that they’re horny little things and that there’s only one female. The two lads have BOTH been getting it on, quite literally, much to our amusement/horror. You’d be surprised at how much noise rutting tortoises make.
In other news, we won a ‘pub’-quiz last night. We almost made our fortune (£22 between four of us) but decided that Damascus is a small place, so we’d share the love by buying the runners-up some drinks. Hopefully they’ll now be our friends!
Also this week: I went to a beauty parlour with my Arabic teacher and a woman who I couldn’t understand removed most of my eyebrows. I had shits. Mr A bought a Blood Diamond DVD for 50p and there actually is a large man’s head in the middle of the screen for the entire film. We tried to buy a car but got caught in an incredible downpour and given that all the car showrooms have corrugated iron roofs, we would essentially have been selecting a car based on frantic gesticulation and yelling – we’re going back tomorrow. And, we went to the Mexican restaurant very near our house for the third time, and for the THIRD time didn’t take enough money with us to pay for our food. Luckily these Syrians are pretty understanding.
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