Happy "Howly" Days! (Sheep in Arabic is pronounced howly)

Sorry...I know the title is a bit cheesy.
Its been an eventful week, as you will be able to tell from the pictures. Today was Eid el-kbir (translated: the big holiday) here in N. Africa. Every family buys, kills and eats a sheep. We were invited to join a family for this event. Enjoy the pictures!

The view from our window this morning:


And now at our friend's house:

A wonderful family...

The time has come. Any last words?

Baaaaaaaaa

Karl was right in there with the rest of the family (I preferred to watch from a distance)

Just like hunting season in Pennsylvania...

Okay, so I decided to get a little closer for a picture.

Twins!!

Just what we were craving... grilled sheep head (fortunately, they don't eat this until breakfast the next day)

And now we eat... today we ate the liver and lungs wrapped in fat and grilled. It actually was pretty tasty because the fat had a good flavor. We were happy to see fat wrapped around it!!

Some pictures of the last day of our basketball program...

Merry Christmas!

Well, its been a great last few weeks. Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while!! A few Christmas decorations...

Wanda and I went to our friends house for lunch, and we wore our jilaba's. Its a good thing we did to, because we would have been the only ladies not wearing it in the neighborhood we were in! Do you like the orange?

We had my favorite North African dish. It's called rafisa. Rafisa = SO GOOD.

This is the last week of our basketball league, we had a great time, and the kids were great!

We went to a city north of us to visit some friends. Here are some pictures...

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We hope all of you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. We had a delicious meal with turkey and all!

We had some North Africa friends over for a real authentic Thanksgiving meal. It was fun to watch them eat pumpkin pie - which seemed very strange to them. Karl and I were very WILLING to eat the leftovers!

Lots of leftovers!

Okay, so one day we were craving pizza. This "pizzeria" is close to our apartment, so we wanted to try it. Turns out this pizzeria doesn't serve pizza at all! Notice that the word pizza is on the sign 3 times. Another funny story - Karl ordered "pepperoni" pizza one day, and received a pizza full of red and green peppers!

One day Karl and I were enjoying a lovely lunch together... as we were eating bread with jelly, Karl discovered a black glob on his knife. There was a big dead bee living in our jelly! I'm sure we had already eaten the legs, etc. before we discovered it.

A closer look...

Some more city pictures...

T'kallem l'Arabyia?

We bought a rug!!! I'm pretty excited... our North African friends told us we got a good deal for it, which was good to hear. It matches our farashes (couches)!

Its been a busy week...but we went to the beach and enjoyed lunch at McDonalds last Saturday! The beach was SO nice!



The street below our apartment: can somebody call trash pickup?!

Another view... (good news, they picked up the trash below and replaced it with tile, it looks nice!)

Our living room...

We're Here!!!

We have arrived, and are enjoying our time here. Its time to learn some language, and play some basketball! Here are some pictures of our city.



Our Kitchen...


Our salon (nice room that you only go in when you have guests). Every North African has this... can you see our turquoise farashes (couches)?!?


Beautiful Sunsets;)





I'll post some more pictures soon.

Leaving SOOOOOON!!!

We're getting all packed up, spending time with family and getting ready to leave. We will leave on October 17 and arrive on the 19th! The next post will be from N. Africa! The next pictures will be more exciting:)

August 2007

We are getting ready to move overseas! More will be posted soon.