Arabic lessons continue to cause amusement to our teacher and others that we meet. Our reply to the question, "Are you a Christian?" was, "No I am not from Egypt, I am from Britain" (the word for Christian and Egyptian are similar). But we are not alone with problems with language - we found a few mistakes with a set of English alphabet cards for children: 'Kamel' & 'Appel'.We are just approaching Easter (all churches in Jordan celebrate the Orthodox Easter) and we will be going to an Easter sun-rise service on Mount Nebo.
After Easter we have a short break from Arabic lessons so we are visiting Azraq - an unique wetland nature reserve in the middle of the desert, but where over recent years the unquenchable thirst of urbanization has drained the once fabled watering stop for travellers (the wonders of 'cut & paste'). So the next blog will probably have an environmental message. Happy late Easter! P
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Just browsing the front page of your blog. What a cheerful and interesting impression you convey: Hamdalillah!
I like the 'pavementologist' tag.
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