Recap on the Last Few Days.

So, I last left off when we went to Lattakia, I suppose. Since then has been a little hectic, as we've been trying to find an apartment outside of the Old City (preferably as far from it as possible). We have succeeded in this, and our new apartment is much, much cheaper in a less expensive neighborhood. I have finished being tutored because it is too expensive, and I'm going to start tutoring for English soon to make some money. We have to be out of our apartment by the end of the month, but we can't move into our new one until the 5th of next month, so we're going to the Christian Villages of the north for a few days with Nebras, which is where his family is from. Then we're coming back and moving in (me, Leo, Alex, and Nebras).

In the meantime, we have:
- Attended and participated in a Syrian wedding
- Been fed so much food we want to die
- Seen more Christian stuff in Christian houses than any American house in existence
- Witnessed a sword fight/play/dance (captured on video for all to see later)
- Gotten drunk and stumbled valiantly through the Old City during the call to prayer
- Met some pretty rad people, Syrians and Iraqis and foreign students alike
- Discovered that everything costs half as much in the Old City if you have a Syrian with you
- Discovered that everything costs half as much in the Old City if you yell at them in Arabic enough
- Discovered that this doesn't always work
- Had "hello!" called out to us by little kids who wish to practice the one word in English they know
- Found out that there is indeed a Persian restaurant in Damascus
- Found out that the Persian restaurant is indeed closed
- Played Twisted Metal 2
- Honed our senses enough to be able to clap flies out of existence in the courtyard
- Observed that jeem is indeed an Arabic sun letter, contrary to our teaching (disregard this, non-Arabic students)
- Found loads of incredible Middle Eastern music, traditional and non-traditional
- Gotten straight-razor shaves from the barber down the street
- Run out of things to put on this list