addendum

1. today i ate brains. i don't know from what animal (story of my life because i still can't speak this goshdarn language), but i'm assuming cow?
2. i also ate goat stomach in the badia.
3. here are my host nephews. they were adorable, except when the littlest one tried to eat my arabic textbook, which i borrowed from SIT, not bought. don't be fooled by his old man appearance. he still cannot talk. maybe that's why we bonded. because i cannot talk either, except "shookrun" (thank you), "qoyes" (nice!), "majnoon" (crazy, as in "qaddafi majnoon" which is my go-to political conversation starter nowadays), and "moomkin" (my favorite word because of its versatility. it can mean may i or maybe or so-so, and i use it in all situations).