so the long awaited day has come...we now have internet access in our building, so no more apologies before starting each blog (hopefully)...hoping to upload pictures too!
it's been a great few days because my parents are here visiting...yup, great huh? they'll be here for a few more days. they were really pleased to see that we are settled, are doing well in school and are happy. I'm glad they are here so they are reassured that we are ok and can pass on the reassurance to the rest of our family and friends. they were able to come and see our classes and met our teachers during one of our breaks...they were pleased and so were our teachers. :)
classes have been going well...the pressure is on as we have exams next week...sat - thurs...one exam a day...a total of 6 ...yes we've started studying already...and have been probing our teachers for details re the exams as it will be different to sit for 6 exams, all in Arabic...we'll see how it goes...
so get this, the other day we went to the haram ( shrine of seyyida zainab - the grand daughter of our holy prophet) and to actually go inside you have to take of your shoes for respect...i normally take off my shoes and leave them on the side where there aren't too many people...so that is what i did...i went to pay my respects and when i came out my shoes were no where to be found lol i looked everywhere...i ended up meeting up with jaffer and my parents and the other couple we study with...we were all going out for dinner and were waiting for the driver to come...lol i had to run out with jaffer to buy a pair of sandals...went out found something real quick...came back in our driver still hadn't come..so just like that i decided to take a quick walk to where i had left my shoes --- went there and lo and behold they were back lol guess someone must have just borrowed them...lol oh well got and extra pair of sandals out of it.
anyhow, other than that..all is well...arabiyatuna afdhal alaan wa nahnu nastatee' an natakallam jayid. fi isboo' al qaadim 'indanaa imtihaan wa inshallah kulluna will get mia bil mia!
'our arabic is better now and we are able to speak well. next week we have exams and god willing we will all do well'.
though we can speak more now, we still have quite a few blunders, lol jaffer is famous for holding up a certain number of fingers but saying a totally different number...like to the taxi driver he held up 4 fingers but kept saying inthnain which is 2 lol yup cab driver was looking at us like we're crazy...he did that once w 4 and 10 also...held up 4 fingers but kept saying he wanted 10 lol lol t'was too funny...anyhow...jaffer's waiting for his turn to 'blog' so will sign off.
more frequent updates from now on...so keep coming :)
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that's so funny about your shoes! we leave our shoes on our porch and i always wonder if someone comes by and tries them on just 'cause they're there. i know, i'm weird hehe
i could just picture jaffer holding up 4 fingers to the cab driver hehe and the driver being all confused. how funny!
Salaams,
I know it has been a little while since we came back, but I thought I'd write a quick note to let both you and Jaffer know that we had a great time in Syria. It was wonderful to see the to two of you so well adjusted and working so hard. Keep up with your studies and I'll keep up with your blogs. More comments to follow.
Our prayers are with you.
Papa and Mommy
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