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goodness, it's been..... 1 year ago

so long since i wrote anything on 43t. :( my life has seemed to belong to someone else for a longish time and i could not find a moment to sit and take a breath. this is all about to change a little i hope as i have a new job now, one which does not require me to work six days a week. i am back in the land of the ‘weekend off’ people. yay. :)

my new job is challenging, principle of the elementary stage of an american school here in the land of the sphinx, but interesting and i feel i can make a success of it.

ramadan is fast approaching, a time for reflection for me and many others. all my confusions are still there but at least now i will have time to be confused, a sort of ironic luxury really.

Sep 07, 2007, 09:26PM PDT | 5 cheers

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Silvie is starting to feel a bit Christmassy

Great to see you back

I was only saying to SL last week that I hadn’t seen you around and we reckoned then that you were just toooo busy with the job.

^{have a cheer IOU}

Sep 08, 2007, 01:02AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

snowleopard10 Zonino!

actually

didn’t we come up with a theory that VP must be busy conducting cutting-edge pudding research? ;)

We made profiteroles last weekend! You would have been proud of us.

It’s lovely to hear from you and I’m pleased that everything is going so well. Don’t forget to teach your students some exciting words! They had a thing on the Today programme this morning about people’s favourite words – mellifluous and oleaginous were two that came up which I liked.

Enjoy your weekends off! How is sweetpea?

Sep 08, 2007, 01:23AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

velvet_poppy

if only, if only......

it were cutting edge pudding research. actually i did eat something the other week which was rather delicious, it was made from squash ( as in the veg not the drink ) and had cinnamon, rasins and nuts in it all put together in a sort of flan type affair. it was gorgeous and is apparently a popular egyptian sweet.

as it is ramadan here now it is the time for sweets. people eat a lot of sugary things at night for energy for the coming day. i love all of them and am not surprised when some people find that they put weight on during ramadan.

i love the two words you mentioned, both of them roll so nicely around the mouth. i was talking the other day with someone about how certain words in arabic are so nice and useful that a lot of us foreigners have adopted them. one i particularly like is shibshib which means a flip flop or any type of casual slip on shoe.

now that i have more time i am going to finally get myself some arabic lessons so i trust there will be lots more arabic words to come. ;-)

i do hope you are well and happy and that life is good. i am totally out of touch !!!!

Sep 14, 2007, 12:24AM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

velvet_poppy

hellllloooooooo.....

thanks for the this. i have got my weekends back but for a little while seem to have so much to catch up on just to get my life back ! this sounds a tad melodramatic, i know, but for so long i simply had to leave certain things and now, finally, i am getting a chance to sort myself out.

it is ramadan at the moment so i am having to do all my sorting on an empty stomach. i actually don’t mind the lack of food but really, really miss not being able to drink. the sunset prayer is around 6 so i just have to hang on until then. little sweetpea is blisfully unaware of this, of course, she can keep guzzling and stuffing for quite a few years yet. :-)

hope this finds you well and happily busy…..i am totally out of touch with everyone and what’s going on. :-(

Sep 14, 2007, 12:14AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

Silvie is starting to feel a bit Christmassy

Well here's a real cheer this time

Hopefully you will find time to visit us more regularly again soon with stories of sweetpea and puddings, but until then just pop in every now and then to let us know all is well.

I’m just back from hols in Bucharest, so am happily catching up myself!!

Sep 23, 2007, 01:33PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

velvet_poppy

finally have time to....

take a breather as we have a week off from school. it is eid el fitr, the end of ramadan so everyone is in a good mood and i can take time off school and just relax and be silly with sweetpea. :-)

did you like bucharest ? i spent lord knows how many hours there on two occasions as it was our stopover on a non direct flight from cairo to london and back. goodness me we were bored. not an awful lot to do and as my husband is egyptian he was not allowed to leave the airport. :-( i am sure outside that blasted building there is an interesting place !

Oct 12, 2007, 11:34AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

Silvie is starting to feel a bit Christmassy

The airport I flew from

was tiny!! I couldn’t even find shops to spend my few remaining Lei.

The city itself is an interesting mix of architecture and you can see it recovering from the communist regime and the Ceausescu years.

My main reason for being there (well actually the real main reason didn’t turn up but that’s another story!) was the Enescu music festival which was wonderful.

Oct 13, 2007, 10:35AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

i hate to be... - velvet_poppy

The main reason - Silvie

ok.... - velvet_poppy

That wasn't counting - Silvie

i hope so too..... - velvet_poppy

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