Since it's blog about my adopted country day and I have a huge to-do list today to catch up on life, I'm just going to link to a friend's blog. To peak your interest, the title is: Nuns....bikinis....camels....and my husband.
Life here is full of contradictions, and that's one of the reasons I love it. I love the mash of cultures and beliefs and the way we all live out our faith, whether we think we are or not.
Mammabean also posts her reasons to love it here.
I love that I can teach English at an Arabic school and be confident my three boys are getting an excellent bilingual / bi-cultural education, then head downtown to barter for curtain fabric and head to the western part of the city to sip a latte with my mother-in-law at Crumbs cafe. Then end the day with a choir practicing both traditional folkloric music and Mozart's Requiem. The day is sprinkled with two languages, laughter and more serious discussions of faith and politics in a region full of turmoil. I'm so thankful to be part of it all. And that all happened just last Monday.
We said good-bye to my mother-in-law Thursday evening. I can't write about it much now, because I miss her so dearly and my post would just be weepy.
That and I really need to catch up on stuff around the house.
~ Um Tulip
Life here is full of contradictions, and that's one of the reasons I love it. I love the mash of cultures and beliefs and the way we all live out our faith, whether we think we are or not.
Mammabean also posts her reasons to love it here.
I love that I can teach English at an Arabic school and be confident my three boys are getting an excellent bilingual / bi-cultural education, then head downtown to barter for curtain fabric and head to the western part of the city to sip a latte with my mother-in-law at Crumbs cafe. Then end the day with a choir practicing both traditional folkloric music and Mozart's Requiem. The day is sprinkled with two languages, laughter and more serious discussions of faith and politics in a region full of turmoil. I'm so thankful to be part of it all. And that all happened just last Monday.
We said good-bye to my mother-in-law Thursday evening. I can't write about it much now, because I miss her so dearly and my post would just be weepy.
That and I really need to catch up on stuff around the house.
~ Um Tulip
1 comment:
Thanks for the mention :)
We just said good-bye to my in-laws today too! I know how you are feeling!!
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