April snapshot III

more shots of just life here. this is the view from one of our peeps' house. this scaffolding was a bit shaky-seeming. they are totally old school here, which sometimes seems risky or unsafe to us, but they seem to know what they are doing and know what works for them.

so, we got an influx in mosquitos and over the course of a few nights i was being feasted upon by these blood-suckas!

i got a nice bite on my eyelid which caused my eyelid to swell nicely. it was so weird. and then i got bit on the cheek, why not? oh, and i got bit on my arms, too. they had no mercy on me.

thankfully someone here had benadryl i could take to help with the swelling as i that day was my first day to actually go and sit in on a class at my school. i think my roommate was concerned as she didn't want people to think that she socked me. ha!

speaking of my roommate: she invited me to go to the city across the river and check out some old sites there. i was happy to go as i had never been over to that part of the city there. it was really beautiful, yet haunting as it was a graveyard also. here is looking through one of the openings looking at the ocean--awh

i finally got to go meet up with a friend that i met when i flew here over a year ago! we spent Friday night and Saturday together. it was a really fun time. we went to go get tea and i just like this set up! the litte guy mit and it is just cool that you get your own teapot and everything. very fun.

yeah! her and i having lunch on Saturday. it was so great to be with her! very, very cool time her indeed. we had some fun conversations as i was trying to practice my Arabic and she wanted to practice her English, so i bet we looked pretty funny to people:)