Night 4

After a day of classes, I realized that taking the metro/microbus was a lot easier of way home than taking a taxi to who knows where. I got home and spent a lot of time doing "wageb". Mama helped me a lot with it. Then little Lisa came over to with her own "wageb", this time she was learning the letter "A". Basma, my sister, was helping her and when Lisa learned the word "Ant", she ran around screaming Ant. Then Lisa's parents came over. Our families then had a time where they shared all the embarassing things that I have done over the week (it seems some things in families are cross-cultural). After that came the event that I have titled "The Clash of Hospitality". As dinner was about to be served the other family was invited to dinner. As is custom, they deny. The only thing though is that my family would not take no for an answer. As the other family continued to say no, baba blocked the doorway as my sister was yelling and shoving the wife down to sit (never in an angry way). It was quite the spectacle to watch and my family eventually won, though the other family got away with cleaning some of the dishes afterward (which was then protested). After that I had to study more for my arabic quiz so I went in the other room to study. I ended up crashing out early as my sleeping patterns have been crazy this week.