Araaaabian nigghtts and...pants

A couple of days ago we went to an Arabic tea party. the place we went to was very cool. unfortunately i could not locate my camera while we were rushing out the door, but hopefully i will be able to get some pictures from someone else.
we all got to sit on those pillow like chairs super close to the ground and they had very relaxing music...and this woman did some belly dancing. she then told us the story of 1001 nights. it's pretty interesting and quite popular so if you don't know it, you should look it up :p

she also showed us how to make arabic tea. she used spearmint leaves that smelled SO GOOD, and hot water and about 6 tablespoons of sugar in every pot. haha yikes. the whole thing was pretty interesting, but mostly relaxing and nice to be around a lot of the people from the group.

so there's this pretty...cool..trend going on here. haha. the women and some men wear these genie pants. like..full on aladin pants. the women here are stick thin and absolutely gorgeous and can totally pull them off in a very bizarre way. they are everywhere though. other than that kind of quirky thing, most of the clothes here are..normal? i guess. i don't think we have to do much to blend in, but i'm sure we still stick out. we were actually stopped a few times for directions so i guess we don't stick out too much! very cool to be able to tell someone in spanish how to get somewhere when i've been here for less than two weeks...

other than that it seems to have slowed down quite a bit...school is starting to feel like school, and the semester hasn't actually started yet. everyone is very very ready for it to cool down, but last night was the first night that i actually used my sheet to cover up with so that might be a good sign, and all i can think about when i'm hungry is how much i miss my mom's food! i am already thinking about what i'm going to want to be my first meal when i get back... :)

ps- i miss my grandmas a lot. anyone know if grandma hawkins' virus was fixed? and anyone think grandma june will get email anytime soon? haha

pps- our friend morgan, liz and i booked flights to florence! we'll be there the beginning of october

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Taryn Hawkins on September 10, 2009 from Granada, Spain

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I wonder if you will be able to see a link. If so, do the genie pants look like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kilowatthour/282723811/
I hope that doesn't become a trend here because I would look really horrible in them. Not that I ever follow the trends anyways.

What do people look like in Granada Spain?

written by Teresa Haselmann on September 15, 2009

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