hello everyone... again, sorry for not writing in so long but thanks to all the people who check our blog on a daily basis. you are our motivation to write. We have been wanting to come to the Internet cafe for the last few days, but things have been busy with the month of Ramadhan, school and then our night programs. But ALhamd, starting today (thursday) till saturday we have a few days off from school due to the important nights in this Holy Month. Ramadhan here has been different. For one thing, everyone is fasting... well almost everyone..:) occasionally we will see people eating, but its probably cause they are visiting damascus... there are no huge congregations for us where we get together and recite our prayers (aamals together).. so that's different, but ALhamd, Sabiha and I have been doing them at home. the really nice thing is that during the days, the streets are quiet and deserted, but at nights they are lively and filled with energy. So tonight, because we have no school tomorrow, we will iA go out for a walk and have a late night meal as well...
we received some sad news from back home, one of my good friends' son passed away, i believe he was less then 1 year old but was quite sick. because we are so far away, it was really hard news to take...
besides that, our arabic classes are going well. it is amazing that in 4 weeks of studying, we can actually make sentences and communicate with people. of course, it is far far far from good sentences..lol.. but we can communicate. a few days ago we went to dinner to one of our teachers' home and he only speaks arabic. for 4 hours we were able to have a good conversation with him and his family.. ALhamd... fantastic. the kind or arabic we are learning is really useful for speaking, iA down the line we are supposed to learn grammar, but not yet. let me make a sentence for you... "al-talibu kharaja min al-bayt, wa dhahaba ila al-masjid lil-salaat." pretty cool huh... lol... what that sentence says is the student left from the house and went to the mosque to pray... lol.. we are learning basic terminology or words and how to use them in sentences, for example words ike min, ila, fee, ala, huwa, hiya, dhalika, tilka...all these words are key for sentence structure.. and then with the vocab we know or are studying, we can make nice little sentences.. lol.. we are also doing skits, so that helps out with our fluency on basic terminology... but honestly, all praise is for Allah SWT because I am baaaaaddddd at languages, and ALhamd i am not doing too bad after 4 weeks. doing pretty good actually.. Sabiha is doing phenomenal... really, hands down the best student in this program... yup, and she is my wife:)
ok, we will write more stuff later, sabiha is updating right next to me right now...
take care and remember us during these special nights of the month of Ramadhan.
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