Some of our favorites.

1) Favorite food as of late- A delicious blend of veggies, and spice: Sahawik. For dinner almost every night, I soak, wash, peel, and rinse tomatoes, cilantro, chilli peppers, and garlic, blend them together with some yogurt...and there you have it: a delicious dip, or sauce for anything and everything.


2) Favorite pastime - playing table tennis downstairs with our dear neighbors. I am improving I must say - however there is plenty of good competition. And as for Kyle - he is just always a winner. But he sucks at ping pong.


3) Favorite piece of advice - In order to avoid Malaria.... don't eat off the street. (THANKS!)


4) Favorite joke - So a man walks into a bar... well, a Lebanese restaurant to order food. Before the meal, the waiter brings out a plate of clean veggies: a head of lettuce, a cucumber, a tomato, a green pepper, and a lemon. Kyle says, "Oh thanks for washing our vegetables, now could you bring us a cleaver and a cutting board? Thanks..." (*Brie, this ever happen to you?)


5) Favorite thing about teaching -

(Is there is any possible way to explain your way out of this?)

That and - the flattery, "Oh teacher, you are so beautiful, so smart...oh really, I learn so much from you, thank you, never forget me." Not so fast... you missed a spot.

6) Funniest new friend - A fellow teacher, but with experiences to trump us all - He has been there and done everything - By the way, he also befriended a stray cat who is innocently coerced into his home with the promise of food, and instead is given a bath. But sadly, the cat still wanted out. Clean-furred and sopping wet, he returns back to the filfth pit from whence he came. And then our friend remembers - well I guess cats usually clean themselves don't they? Ah well...
( Kyle says this is hard to enjoy without a visual. For a visual aid picture my dad...with a cat...)

7) Favorite new discovery - fresh kiwi juice. bomb.

8) Favorite thing about Yemeni living - the wrap around couches...and having nothing better to do than couch all day.

9) Favorite new word: Shoof (arabic for look) which quickly became shoof-a-loof, our phrase of choice for just about anything.

10) Favorite thing about Kyle - He is always right; it just takes me all day to realize it. And he has got a great since of humor! Who you do life with makes all the difference. I must be the luckiest girl in the world.