Driven by Curiosity…

My friend has been nagging to take me with her to a very famous fortune teller called Ibtisam. I heard so much about Ibtisam and i thought why the hell not,it would be cool… and boy what an adventure it was! Ibtisam lives in a refugee camp near Amman, called Baqaa.

I went in the car with two friends, Sarah and Dana… Dana was the driver and was wearing a very inappropriately tight pants and she is not exactly skinny, her shirt was also very tight and short and her hair…. boy that strong blond colour simply did not fit in the area! Sarah on the other side, well she looks normal… but she is very much into Karma and the power of earth and mother nature and super natural events……. When we stepped in ibtisam's house, she said ” do you know what is this bad smell? it is the bad feelings people leave behind them…and i thought to myself … (all i smell is stinky feet!) but i am running ahead of myself here!

When we reached Baqaa, young boys with runny noses running barefeet in the streets started telling us how to get to Ibtisam's… when they see three young laides in one car, they know immediately where they are heading… we followed the narrow, bad streets, till we managed somehow to get to her house.

The moment you get there, you would know, from the number of Mercedes and BMW that are parking there totally out of place… you go into the house and a young hostess leads you to a living room where many many many women are sitting… All sorts of women, whom you would never imagine seeing there. People made space for us, and we sat down… few minutes afterwards, they brought us a very heavy coffee and instruted us to turn it upside down the saucer when we finish… we follwed the instructions with so much care waiting for our turn.

Ibtisam is a young lady who sits in the corner. she has pleasnt features… I was so curious, and started chatting to people to see what they will tell me… they told me that she became a psychic when she hit 13, she somehow managed to befriend a jinny (i was impressed, remebering that when i was thirteen i was still trying to make friends from this world)… I will stop here today… but what is really worth knowing is that she has been feeding a very large family, and that she upgraded her parents house several times… and that she is really a very interesting woman, who is very sure of herself. Finally she never reads on Fridays or in ramadan… so if anyone is thinking about it, chose other days….