From: http://flickr.com/photos/mahairi/115996580/
A kid asleep in a tree in Syria.
I really miss Syria. I miss the sound of the call to prayer, and the sound of people talking on their cell phones as they walk on the street outside our apartment. I miss the smell of my mom’s food, the shady, tree-lined walks to my friend’s house, the cold marble floors….I miss home.
I can’t get enough of A Fine Frenzy so I’m sharing (or inflicting) you with it.
The music video for Come On Come Out by Alison Sudol:
At was at the library yesterday, picking up some books I had on hold. Customer Service is right next to the books on hold bookshelf (sorry, that is very redundant). After I found my books, I saw that the lady at CS was methajabae, covered. I really wanted to ask her where she was from…but I didn’t have the guts. Besides, she was helping people in line. Maybe next time I’ll go to the library on Thursday, around 5 pm and have some “question” I just have to ask Customer Service.
I’m traveling tomorrow and won’t be back until Wednesday. So no blog posts until then. Sorry. Have a good week,
From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friend_faraway/2317342014/
Pickles in Damascus.
From the BBC:
Did your ceiling come from Syria?
As the BBC launches new series How We Built Britain, presenter David Dimbleby tells us how the Duke of Wellington found himself staring up at the ceiling of his Berkshire home - in Syria.How We Built Britain, on BBC One, is an epic six-part journey around the British Isles, telling the story of how periods of architecture gave each region its unique character.
As the BBC launches new series How We Built Britain, presenter David Dimbleby tells us how the Duke of Wellington found himself staring up at the ceiling of his Berkshire home - in Syria.How We Built Britain, on BBC One, is an epic six-part journey around the British Isles, telling the story of how periods of architecture gave each region its unique character.
David Dimbleby, who presents the series, told BBC Radio Berkshire’s Henry Kelly one story relating to Berkshire’s Stratfield Saye House.
The house was built in 1630 by Sir William Pitt, and from the early nineteenth century became home to the Dukes of Wellington.
It lies on the border between Berkshire and Hampshire, and is still home to the present Duke of Wellington. You can visit it during July and August each year.
‘He saw his own ceiling’
“I came across a very interesting story there,” Dimbleby told us.
“Stratfield Saye is built in classical style and was given to the Duke of Wellington by a grateful nation after the Battle of Waterloo.
“While he was still a soldier in the Second World War, the present Duke of Wellington was fighting in Syria, among the great classical ruins of Palmyra, because the Germans had an airport there and the Vichy French were defending it.
“As he took refuge in a ruined Syrian temple, he looked up and saw above him the ceiling from his dining room back home at Stratfield Saye.
“The reason is that in the eighteenth century, classical drawings of these buildings came back to Britain.
“These drawings were used to help design British buildings in that classical style.
“So the ceiling of the Duke of Wellington’s dining room at Stratfield Saye is an exact replica of the temple in the Syrian battlefield.”
From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/99836622/in/set-72057594063399965/
Kids at the Orontes in Hama.
I hate tax. I’ll have my budget figured out and then I’ll buy something in a store that works within that budget. You thought it was $27.50? But noooo, it’s $30.99 because of tax. So there.
In Syria there’s tax, but usually not on the things you can buy in a store. I forget about each and every item here costing more than the price tag says it will. Ugh.
Let me once again restate my hatred for tax. I hate tax.
Here the music if you want to listen to the song I just wrote about.
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