Thursday, January 30, 2020

Things I see (Vol 12)

Welcome to "Things I See."  If you want to see the previous installments, you can click on:


A car with "this" on the back windshield was parked in front of our house one night, and I just thought, "You can't get any more wrong than this."


After 60 years of research, they are still "staring" instead of "starting."


Yes, you are seeing correctly.  This woman is watering astroturf.


We use one gas bottle for a long time on our stove/oven.

These are the weekly exchanges of gas bottles outside of a naan (bread) shop.

That's a lot of bread, folks.


Bread is a serious business here.  

People line up at 6am for their morning bread, 11ish for their afternoon meal, and 7pm for their evening meal.  

You just lay your money under a piece of long rope, and the man at the window takes the bills closest to the window and asks whose money it is and how much bread they want.  Then the next bills get asked about and so on.  It's quite a system.


The shop above was being charged rent that was too high, so they started construction 3 plots down on their own shop.


You can see that the size if very unassuming, but it is still the heart of the neighborhood.



Reminders of all of God's promises are a happy thing here in the Middle East, because sometimes the darkness feels heavy, and knowing He's near is a beautiful thing.


I still don't understand the Christmas and Easter decorations in this country.  The people really don't understand the meanings of any of them, but they adopt what they see from the West.

After I heard that some people think we worship the Christmas tree at Christmas, I can't imagine what they think about celebrating Easter with eggs for.


Life at the French school.  This is what happens when you say jé instead of jai.

She didn't seem to mind, and apparently, she wasn't the only student that got drawn on.


This reminded me of how big of a splash "Covfefe" made in May of 2017.

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