House of Curiosity...

October 2008
We have finally joint the 70,000 Jordanian families that have foreign live-in domestic workers. Irani, is 23, smart and ambitious. She started her studies in economics at the university, and is here to save enough money to be able to go back to school…. I picked her up when she arrived…
And for a split [...]

Prices in Ramadan
 First day of Ramadan passed safely. It was extremely hot yesterday, but I did not leave the house all morning.  Therefore, did not get the chance to deal with the heat and the traffic… apparently Amman was jammed yesterday. A friend explained that she stayed from 1:30 till 2:15 standing still in the [...]

30/12/2008
So…we spent the last three days gathering food for Gaza. 7iber created an event on facebook to tell people about the drive…
I am not sure how things picked up, but I received messages about the drive from fifteen different people!
Now, we told people to bring food to the empty lot of land facing [...]

  
“We were sitting in the dark, oblivious to what is happening outside” says my friend Shorouq in Gaza. “My parents closed all the doors and asked us not leave. We could hear wailing, screaming and the constant stream of bombs. We are simply waiting to die.” She continued before the line was cut off. That [...]

It was a very enjoyable brunch in a hotel in a city called Queretaro Mexico! Yes I am in Mexico…. You walk into the airport to get shocked at the modernity and orderliness of the airport, you form a totally different impression about the whole culture I always thought that mexico is a desert with [...]

Marseille,
Beautiful weather, a bit on the cold side. French men are absolutely charming, unlike Germans or Dutch, they do pay for your coffee, even if they don’t know you beyond the seminar. Bread is beyond yummy and their cheeses… don’t let me go there!
I love my breakfast, but I don’t push myself if there was [...]