HELLO AGAIN. I hope you guys are all doing great! A few, new, weird things for this week. Like every week. The weather is sunny every day, which is nice, but also hot and humid. Whenever I check the weather, though, it's always in Celsius and I don't bother converting it. So today Peter told me that it had been 102 degrees and I didn't really think of it as that hot, so good news on the blood-thinning front!
I went to Tyre, in the way south, today to hit up what is generally thought of as the nicest public beach here. It was, indeed, nice and I didn't get burnt, which is double nice. The popular topic of the day was how pale I am, but I didn't mind because when you're one of the beautiful people, others get jealous. Also, I hope they all go to Britain and stick out like sore thumbs whilst I blend in with the locals.
A MOVE IS AFOOT
So I'm moving into the apartment that I'm charged with housesitting for the summer. Really a sweet deal so I lucked out on that one. There is actually a balcony with a seaside view. I'm just not going to ask any questions and hope nobody realizes what a steal I'm getting.
LESSONS ON BEING A GENTLEMAN
We had a fairly large group going to Tyre today - 4 girls and 3 guys, total. If you're a Western woman here and not with a man, you can get stared or have some unwanted marriage proposals. Of course, with 4 girls all in swimsuits (wearing loose stuff over it, but still dressing to a Western-suitable norm), we got lots of leery young guys on the buses there and back.
As a buddy of mine pointed out once here: "See those 20-year-old dudes over there? They have never kissed a woman. Think about that. That'll mess you up, man."
WHEREUPON I FIND MY KRYPTONITE
Buying stuff out here goes something like this. And I love it.
However, I was totally and unexpectedly disarmed today when I went shopping in Tyre, because the shopkeepers WERE UNASSUMING YOUNG MEN BETWEEN 15-20 and the prices they initially offered WERE DIRT CHEAP. As in, 65 cents for something I thought was going to be a few dollars.
By being young guys, just trying to help out their family at their shop, and coupled with insanely low prices (maybe even non-foreigner prices, god forbid???), my aggressive, yet jovial, haggling mode was shut down in a heartbeat and I simply accepted the price, paid it, and left.
That being said, I still got a great deal.
WELL, that's it for now. More to come. Probably? Sure.
I went to Tyre, in the way south, today to hit up what is generally thought of as the nicest public beach here. It was, indeed, nice and I didn't get burnt, which is double nice. The popular topic of the day was how pale I am, but I didn't mind because when you're one of the beautiful people, others get jealous. Also, I hope they all go to Britain and stick out like sore thumbs whilst I blend in with the locals.
A MOVE IS AFOOT
So I'm moving into the apartment that I'm charged with housesitting for the summer. Really a sweet deal so I lucked out on that one. There is actually a balcony with a seaside view. I'm just not going to ask any questions and hope nobody realizes what a steal I'm getting.
LESSONS ON BEING A GENTLEMAN
We had a fairly large group going to Tyre today - 4 girls and 3 guys, total. If you're a Western woman here and not with a man, you can get stared or have some unwanted marriage proposals. Of course, with 4 girls all in swimsuits (wearing loose stuff over it, but still dressing to a Western-suitable norm), we got lots of leery young guys on the buses there and back.
As a buddy of mine pointed out once here: "See those 20-year-old dudes over there? They have never kissed a woman. Think about that. That'll mess you up, man."
WHEREUPON I FIND MY KRYPTONITE
Buying stuff out here goes something like this. And I love it.
However, I was totally and unexpectedly disarmed today when I went shopping in Tyre, because the shopkeepers WERE UNASSUMING YOUNG MEN BETWEEN 15-20 and the prices they initially offered WERE DIRT CHEAP. As in, 65 cents for something I thought was going to be a few dollars.
By being young guys, just trying to help out their family at their shop, and coupled with insanely low prices (maybe even non-foreigner prices, god forbid???), my aggressive, yet jovial, haggling mode was shut down in a heartbeat and I simply accepted the price, paid it, and left.
That being said, I still got a great deal.
WELL, that's it for now. More to come. Probably? Sure.
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