Habibi

Today, I took Skyler’s dance class he organized which was a lot of fun. It was just small group of six in the class which made it even more fun I feel. We did a jazz type warm up which included so many things we used to do for synchro warm up with Tisa including the alternating arm move. Doing these things brought back fond memories fro synchro. We then did some stretching and then small combos which were then used again all together as a dance to a Missy Elliot song. It was really a blast learning.

Later that night the locals were taking a group to a Shisha bar. I wasn’t really interested in smoking but I wanted to go to hang out and I’m really glad I did. The locals are such fun and I feel like they are just such happy people because they are constantly laughing. They are also so nice. Tarek, who earlier today at work asked, “Where are you?” I answered, “Right here” but he had meant, “How are you?” Anyways, Dora said she was hungry so he ran out and got some food for her and any others who were hungry which was really nice. They call each other “habibi” which translated means darling but they use it all the time to call here friends. . We started saying it over and over again. For girls it is "habibati" which doesn’t sound nearly as cool. We then changed it to "habiboo" because it sounds kinda like "hey boo." They were amused with us I think. One of them named Samy is going to be interning in Portland, ME soon! I wish we had started hanging out with our locals right at the beginning because now that we finally befriended them we are coming to the end of our stay but at least we got the chance to bond with them a little!