mon, apr 16

Salaam aleikum!

yesterday and today we did mostly every day things, but of course, it's a little different here. if you want fruit, you go to the fruit place. if you want groceries, you go to a grocery store. well, we went to a couple of grocery stores. if you want fabric, you got to a fabric store. i guess we do that in the states too. i just liked experiencing the day to day "living" here. it's been awfully quiet without the "boys" and sharon here. none of us gals left behind are very talkative. heheheheh!
a lady and her daughters came over yesterday for reading lessons. she wasnt very talkative either! that was a little awkward! we went to her house today for lunch and boy was it good. we had bulani. dont know about the spelling for that, but that's how you say it. bulani is almost like a popover with potato inside and some other stuff. we had two kinds. one with potato and the other with leeks. of course, since i love onions, i liked the one with leeks the best. let me tell you tho, it was GREASY!!!!! they made another dish, too, with meat and lentils. i was so full from the bulani. the bulani were as big as giant pancake! but i thought it would be in bad taste to refuse it. so i ate some with naan.

when we got home it started raining! PRAISE THE LORD!!! and it is thundering like crazy now!!! i LOVE IT!!!! WOO-HOOO!!!!

yesterday, we went up to babur's garden, where Babur's tomb is. it was a very impressive place. the guard who opened the tomb for us wanted me to take his picture. i love it when they want us to do that. i only wish there was a way we could get a copy of the picture back to them.

today, we also went to the fabric bazaar. i dont know if that is what it is called. but there are a zillion fabric stalls all lined up one after another. and there were also guys (yes GUYS!) embroidering with old singer machines on the fabric. we found some shalwar kamiz "sets" that we can sew up ourselves. they are quite nice. i also bought a little bit of fabric to make some more. the fabrics dont come from afghanistan unfortunately. but probably from pakistan. or korea. they tried to tell us it was from the US. i tmay have been but i would prefer to buys something i CANT get at home.

i am 2/3 finished with "Sewing Circles of Herat". altho i learned a lot about the history of Afghanistan, i feel like the title is very misleading in that the author barely mentioned the sewing circles of herat. and by the way, it wasnt really a sewing circle. that was just a coverup for girls to gather and learn about literature and about having ideas and stuff like that, since the girls schools were closed down when the taliban were in charge.

anyway, that's about all that's been happening here. sharon and the guys come home this evening. i hope they will be OK in this rain.

Khoda havez,
audree*