Brian's Syrian Adventure
Submitted by zozo2k3 on Tue, 2006-01-24 18:01.
A journal of my activities as I spend the summer studying Arabic at the University of Damascus.
| Jihad against the word jihad | |
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Its a standing on a soapbox rambling meandinering rant kind of day, very different than my usual post. Somebody recently sent me this article about how anti-western muslim terrorists are well-educated people who have had opportunites in life, as opposed to the vision that they are lashing out as a result of their lives under oppressive authoritarian regimes. |
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| Not very Palmyra | |
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Ok I am over being sick, and I did well on the midterms. Every time I sit down to finish writing about some of the trips I've take around the country, it feels like homework, and I quit before I'm finished. |
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| Haases hali mardaan | |
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Sorry for the delay, once again, but I've been sick. I've had a cold, which, ironically, does not go well with the heat. I'm more fortunate than some of my fellow Americans here, one of whom was hospitalized briefly with dysentary. |
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| Keeping my cool | |
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Ahhh the computer lab at school. Air conditioned, free, and I don't have to walk on the life-threatening streets of Damascus to get to it. Well, at least not if I come here right after class, which is only sometimes possible, and even then it closes at 2:30 in the afternoon, so I only get about an hour to use it when I do. Today I don't feel like creative writing. |
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| Language barriers in the living room | |
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Hussein and I walked through the courtyard and into an entry where a door was standing open. A woman inside stood and welcomed us in. She looked as if she could be a grandmother, but her hair was still jet black. |
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| Finding home | |
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I awoke in the middle of the night, time unknown. The feeling was a bit like Christmas morning - once I was awake and aware that I was on the other side of the planet, I couldn't go back to sleep. |
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| Getting real | |
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Dear reader, life in Damascus has consumed my journal writing abilities, and I do apologize. By the end of the next post, I will be living in my current residence (which is very nice, by the way.) Afterwards I shall write on subjects, rather than days, as chronology is no longer a suitable organizational criteria. |
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