Our two week break is coming to an end really fast and back to school we go on sat! Our break started out quite slow but now its going by super fast. Last sat we had a chance to go to halab (aleppo) - the administrator of our course arranged it for us with a friend of his that had a nice comfortable car as its a bumpy drive there...it takes about 4 hours to get there...it started out with just jaffer and i and the driver...but when the driver found out it was just to of us he asked if he could bring his wife along...i was excited about that as it would be good company for me...so they came to pick us up at 11am...and guess what it turned out it was his wife and 2 kids ( 2 little adorable boys) lol in a 5 seater...but you know what? surprisingly we were still very comfortable...the best part was that they spoke NO ENGLISH so we really got a chance to use our arabic...alhamd we did quite well. it was a smooth journey and they were really welcoming..it wasn't uncomfortable at all...we all had a great time. we spent 2 nights in halab...we found a decent hotel - and that too was a great treat for us! on our way to halab we stopped at raqqa to pay our respects to the companions of our prophet (ammar yasir, and owais e qarani) then drove to halab and checked into our hotel..
the next day the driver came to pick us up...it was just him...and he took us around to visit all the different holy sites...as well as to qila halab and then went to a nice restaurant to have some 'kebab halabee' which was delicious...ohh yes, how could i forget - we also went to the suq for some shopping and believe me our driver taught us how to bargain like we've never before...if it weren't for him, we would have definitely spent double or more than what we ended up spending!
after our whole day of being out - we spent some time in our hotel relaxing - then went out for a walk on the street where our hotel was...there were lots of little shops so t'was nice to browse around...we found this perfume store...and went crazy there...50 syrian pounds for 1 small bottle of authentic name brands of perfums lol lets just say we're well stocked...the 'sahibe dukkan' (shopkeeper) was quite surprised at our arabic considering we've been here for 3 months...so alhamd that was good to hear!
we stopped at a few more places on the way back the next day and then were home on monday...rested on tuesday and then were out again today for our final visits...went to pay our respects to hazrat habil( able ) and KFC! lol its funny that with all the good food we get here sometimes its KFC that just does it...we had it for lunch and brought some home for dinner :)
ilal liqaa ~sabs
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