I spent literally the whole week writing my paper…. and my brain is fried, and I am tired and I am cold and I am hungry and I am BORED! The good news though is that I am learning how to do a proper research…halleluiah…  I would like to know how my research methodology will help cooking on the stove or maybe in washing the dishes?!

Couple of says ago, I was in the street when this guy approaches me, he looked quite well dressed and I thought he wanted to ask me something. So he says with an exaggerated English accent “ Dahling, I am homless. Can you spare ten pounds?”

I was amused by his audacity, thinking “did I really hear him say ten pounds?” and said “ I can give you 1 or 2, would that work?” so he goes “dahling, youuu ah a doll, do you know what I will do for you? I will give you a kiss! My body has instinctively jumped back, and my hand came directly in front of his face speak to the hand motif and I said Allah yirdah 3aliek bala 2ARAF! And left him standing there, he was shouting behind me  ”dahling, youuu ah a doll… dahling, youuu ah a doll”

Ok on a more serious note Last week our class was about democracy, corruption and development… I went like sheikh il shabab, all ready and prepared to use the Hamas example to prove to those arrogant Brits that they don’t know what democracy is all about… only to find 200% support in class! What a positive disappointment it was…disappointment because all the energy and the arguments I have prepared all week were not needed as people were all with me anyway….  positive because I am impressed at how the citizens of the world think.. That maybe things are not as bad as Arabs think?  an example is cafe loulou ”Seeing Arab in my bathroom mirror”.But wait a sec… here I am drifting again to intellectual blablabla… when I am just not in a very intellectual mood, I am in the mood for a silly girlie movie and a bucket of popcorn and drink pink lemonade and wear the silly pink furry slippers !My potatoes are all done…so get ready cooking, here i come!

Yesterday, I spent the whole day very sleepy! I woke up at around 8:00 to go to this coffee morning, where Palestinian women get together to be educated about the Palestinian case, and help gather donations. The donations go to this lady we all know, who goes to Ramalla often. She does what she sees fit, as no matter how much we know, we don’t know what they go through.

Arab women are really funny! every single foreigner I met here, lives great! They have activities, book clubs, they meet people, discover markets, enjoy their kids, have parties, quiz nights,… etc. They are simply fine.

On the other hand, every other Arab woman is so depressed, is on the verge of nervous break down, have given up so much for the bastard she married…will kill herself if she stayed another day, thinks the kids are too BEAUCOUP, is getting fat and does not what to do about it. I simply do not get it!

Yeah it is true, Saudi is not exactly Honolulu, but I just started realizing that we are very spoiled, very uncreative, we simply do not know how to live. I am talking about Jordanians, Palestinians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Syrians. .and it goes on. Of course, if each one of them has a maid and a nanny (who is the feeding, changing, bathing, playing with the kids) and a cook and a driver. Yeah, I would get bored as well. None of them is in the mood to open a book or go to the gym, to run after the kids…YEEEEE

BIEN, I leave now with the compliments DIEU