The eyebrow lift- so part of the culture here active listening; but instead of nodding or saying uh-hu the lift their eyebrows. If a male is doing it, it feels like he is hitting on you. The guy pinching my cheek is Dave. Our first day in country we had a meeting at the college to introduce ourselves to all of the students. He did the eyebrow thing to us the whole time. We were all freaked out. When he walked into my class Monday morning, I thought I was going to have a problem with one of my students hitting on me. He later explained to me what it meant. He is one of my favorite students. We had show-and-tell on Friday and he brought me a cool beaded bracelet with the country flag on it. Maybe he was sucking up for a good grade, but it worked.
Last week was so cool! We all went to my friend Yetanite’s house! It was a blast. We had lots of good food at lunch(and the best lemonade I have ever drank), got to have the traditional coffee ceremony, but Yetanite made me do it. I roasted the bean, crushed them, and then boiled the water and made coffee for everyone. It was really cool. After coffee we had a dance party. They taught us the “iskista” which is a dance in which you mainly just move your shoulders. I was good at it when I was sitting down, but when I stood up, my bottom half felt the need to move too. Hahaha. I also learned an Arabic dance from another friend of mine Amenia, she is studying a lot about arab culture. She know I am interested so she teaches me a lot. My friends laughed at me because I have no rhythm. 
Pouring the coffee is a delicate art, you have to make sure to not get any coffee grounds in the cup. My friend Amenia was watching closely making sure i did it right.
This is the beautiful Yetanite and I having coffee on morning.
Having discuessions in class is fun, except they put me in the mush pot!
These are 7 of my girls who i am getting really close to. They had us over last week for Esets house for a coffee ceremony, it was my first. Today they are takeing me shopping for one of there dresses i am wereing.
Other random things about AA
We have noticed while driving that the lines painted on the road are purely for decoration, no on actually uses them. People drive in two lanes, and at some times I have seen three cars with at least some part of them in the same lane.
The air pollution here is crazy. We all have black boggers, and every time a car or bus passes I feel like we may have lung cancer because of all the junk in the air.
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