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Hello! After lots of requests and many weeks my latest travel blog is now up! I’ve decided to jump around and go ahead and publish the Middle East ones prior to the Christmas break one (the photos are done but not the writing, I’m working on it, things have been busy!).

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Lisa Damico
2007-04-21 22:25:29

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a little background information on Arabic men - they all know just enough English to bargain with you - money speaks - and then
they all have one favorite line they like to call out to the tourist women walking by. Many resort to the old stand-by, "You have beautiful eyes," doesn't matter that you're wearing dark sunglasses and they can't see your eyes. This brings me to my little story, so, Nicole, Deborah, Rachel and I had been out checking out shops one night in Dahab (another great thing about Egypt especially coming from France where the entire town shuts down at 7 pm - all of the stores are open until midnight seven days a week) and after getting our names in Arabic tattooed in henna on our ankles (even though it looked really cool turned out not to be the best idea, as then all the guys on the street who saw our ankles could call us by name) we were walking back to our hostel chewing some gum when one of these well-spoken men on the street who obviously knows the right words to lure in all female speakers of the English language calls out "Can I chew the gum that is in your mouth?"

Definitely deserves creativity points . . . so for all the single guys out there, next time you see a girl you want to impress and she happens to be chewing gum, remember "Can I chew the gum that is in your mouth?" it's a real winner.

To finish up Dahab, later that night we celebrated Rachel's 23rd birthday which ended in free birthday cake, Happy Birthday in Arabic sung to Rachel by 10 or so Egyptian men and free shisha (as Wikipedia informs me, a glass pipe of Persian origin used for smoking tobacco). Since I figured I probably wouldn't have any other opportunities to try a shisha in the Middle East, with the other assistants I took my turn smoking the apple flavored tobacco. As my sole goal was to blow smoke rings just like the caterpillar in the Alice and Wonderland cartoon movie did and I was only successful in creating one, I decided shisha wasn't as ...