Visiting Friends
Today we visited a friend of one the ladies here near the food market. There were six sisters that live together and one of the women was drawing designs for a djellaba and let us each try on one of the djellabas that she had made.
It was funny because to understand what the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Saturday, June 28
June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27
June 28, 2008
Fatima
Maria, Fatima, and I went to a city about an hour away to the beach today. We only had a few hours and it was just neat how God worked things out so that we were in the right places at the right times. The train didn’t leave until two, so we took a bus [...]
Wednesday, June 25
June 27, 2008
Today we crossed the border to a Spanish enclave where the family we are staying with will be working. It was strange at first to be able to openly pass out tracts and bibles on the streets after a few weeks of not being able to distribute literature so openly. Miranda and I were a [...]
Monday, June 23
June 24, 2008
Arabic
Well, the honeymoon stage of learning Arabic has definitely ended. I enjoy learning it, but it is one of the hardest things I have ever tried to learn. There are sounds that just don’t exist in the English language. It makes it even more exciting when I do get something right though or when I can communicate [...]
Sunday, June 22
June 24, 2008
Visiting Churches
This morning, four of us went to a church in a town about an hour and a half away. Even though I didn’t understand anything besides a few words here and there, it was good to see the church and its service. There were about 20 or so in attendance and it was encouraging [...]
Saturday, June 21
June 21, 2008
The friendliness and hospitality of the people here amazes me. The other day we were invited to the wedding of a woman’s daughter within half an hour of meeting her. In America, you would never dream of walking down the road and saying hello to someone and them stopping to talk to you. But this [...]
Friday
June 21, 2008
I had some crazy experiences today.
My friend and her niece invited us back to her house (more like mansion, no joke) for lunch. I thought something was up when they sent their personal security guard to pick us up. Who has personal security guards?? Well, their house was the nicest house I [...]
Thursday June 19
June 20, 2008
Maria and I met two of the girls in the morning English class after class on Monday. We went to tea with one of them on Tuesday and were able to talk to her for several hours. We said we wanted to try the tea here and she asked if we didn’t mind [...]
