I’m Too Saksay For My Saksay

10Dec09

Saksay is one of my favorite deserts. Ever. It’s cold, delicious, and nostalgic. It’s also the source for a lot of silly jokes. Like a great friend of mine used to sing: “I’m to saksay for my saksay”. When I was younger my mom often made it whenever we’d have parties with our Syrian friends. Here’s the recipe [...]

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Chaufage Squatting

09Dec09

It’s so cold! Brrrrrr! I was just telling my mom earlier today that if I was in the Donner Party, I’d be the first to go.
Speaking of family and freezing weather brings me to “chaufage squatting”. Chaufages are radiators and are what some people use to heat their houses in Syria. (I think it might come from the French [...]

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Wherever You Go

04Dec09

I was watching So You Think You Can Dance (last season though, not the current one) on TV last night. One couple danced to Richard Marx’s Right Here Waiting. And that brought back a memory. I remember sitting in a small cafe in Damascus with my dad, working on my math for school. I was probably eight [...]

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Turkish? Ne? Hayır.

21Nov09

We went grocery shopping this morning, stocking up on some stuff before the Eid (most stores close during Eid al-Adha).
Before my dad said anything to the cashier in Arabic, the guy asked if we were Turkish. That’s a new one. Generally my parents and brother are thought to be either Circassian, French, or Eastern European, although they can (and generally [...]

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The TCKs Who Went Up The Hill That Seemed Like A Mountain

14Nov09

Another random memory of my childhood in Syria:
My brother and I used to go to a Syrian school in Damascus (third grade and first grade, respectively). The bus would drop us off at the main street and we’d walk up the hill, which to my 6 year-old proportions, seemed like a mountain. Along the way [...]

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Away We Go

26Sep09

We’re going back to the Middle East soon (yay!) and I’ve been a bit busy packing and getting ready to go. So….once again….I probably won’t be blogging for about a week.
That’s it for now,

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Comparatively

19Sep09

A few days ago we were in Khols (they had a sale). As soon as we walked in the store, we heard a mom speaking to her daughter in Arabic. I think they were Lebanese. Then I saw some Kuwaitis. We had split up in the store to get done faster and my mom saw [...]

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Hillbillies

11Sep09

On our recent vacation in Asia, our flight from LA to Taipei was delayed because of a typhoon. (It might have been the early beginnings of Morakot, I think.) Anyway, because we got into Taipei about 4 hours late, we had to run through the airport, which is very shiny, by the way, to catch [...]

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You Folks Bein’ Served?

02Sep09

My family and I were at Walgreens about a week ago, getting a new passport picture for my brother.
While we were waiting for the picture to be done, an employee came behind the counter. He had a bag of trailmix and was popping M&Ms (and other things that shouldn’t be mixed together) into his [...]

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The Village Market

04Aug09

Sorry I haven’t written in awhile. We were traveling and I didn’t have internet access. We just got back from a small town outside of LA. It was really pretty and the weather was so cool and refreshing. The best thing though, was that we met some Syrians. Near the house we were at, was [...]

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