There are four other new teachers along with me
Katherine- my roommate/from South Africa
Ben- from Portland, Oregon!
Matt- the guy who found me in Jordan
Amira- a recent Muslim convert who brought her FIVE sons with her from America
We are all getting along wonderfully (As we were all hanging out yesterday, Ben says “this feels absurdly like summer camp. Shall we do an icebreaker?” hah) But I’m having an especially good time with Matt and Ben. We are buddies, and its nice to be roaming around with men, not as a single, young, American girl.
Yesterday, Nafisa-our academic coordinator- took us out for a traditional Yemeni meal. Lunch is the main meal of the day and let me tell you, it was a feast! We had platters of chicken cooked with potatoes and onion on rice, huge roasted legs of lamb and goat(DELICIOUS), whole grilled fish, a variety of paste-items(similar consistency as hummus but made of chili peppers and yogurt) and HUGE pieces of bread as big and flat as a pizza to eat it with. We just dug right in. No germs in family. You eat everything with your hands and rip of pieces of bread and just get after it. To finish the meal we ended with platters of fresh fruit(mango, papaya, oranges, bananas and limes). It was just about the messiest dining experience of my life. They rolled out big pieces of plastic to cover the table but it hardly contained the fiasco that was our attempt to eat like a Yemeni.
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