Hello Readers

Hello everyone, yup you guessed it, we are back at the internet cafe so thought we would update the blog. We cant tell if anyone is even reading anymore, as the counter page doesnt work here at the cafe, so if you are reading, THANK YOU!!

We are back in school in full swing after the 12 days of Muharram, no more holidays for a few more weeks, so nothing to really look forward to, lol, just kidding, we do look forward to school :) A week ago the Coordinator of the course along with some "consultants" were here to make sure everything was ok and to interview our teachers for next year. If most of you get the WF weekly emails, last weeks email had pictures of most of our teachers... lol... none of them speak english!! LOL, but thats good, cause IA by next year our arabic will be good enough to understand fully and carry a discussion with our teachers.

Also the coordinators of the course made some changes, trying to meet all the needs of the students to the best of the ability. Sabiha and I were craving more arabic from our school, we feel for us to get better we need more conversations and understanding. So they were nice enough to accommodate us by giving us an extra hour to practice our arabic, while the other students had different needs that needed to be met, and they were accommodated. Overall, the classes are going great and Alhamd, our progress has been good as well. They also gave us a possible good surprise, we wont share yet until it is confirmed, but pray for us that it works out....

In the next couple of days we will go to Town Center - a shopping mall in Damascus... yes they have malls here..lol. Normally we go to this mall called ski land close to the airport where they have a big super market where we do our shopping for the whole month. They literally have everything we want from spaghetti, sauce, tuna, cheese, cookies (like back home...lol) to meats and cold cuts..etc. But someone told us about this other place - town center- which is supposed to be a bigger mall with a bigger grocery store inside it too. So we are real excited!! But dont get us wrong, they dont have everything, we still occasionally randomly miss things like Del Taco, Taco Bell, Cold Stone, Lotus Chinese Rest...etc..lol, and ofcourse Steak!!

Ok, will leave it at that for now, by the way, super bowl was last sunday!!??!! what!! totally forgot about it, but amazing that the Giants won!! AND OFCOURSE THE BIGGEST NEWS OF ALL - THE LAKERS GOT PAU!!!!!!!!! WHAT!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! LOL, THAT IS CRAZY!! I know i have missed the entire season, but this HAS to make them title contenders!!! I'M LOVING IT!!!!!!!! take care