- Met a guy at the gym. He refused to speak to me in French even if I had questions, and later he told me spoke in impeccable French. 'Shit. I do the same thing in English in Montreal (where I begin to have empathy for Anglo-Montrealers j'me shot in head. Seriously. I have some self-analysis to be done).
- The same guy greeted me today and he explained that he is in rehabilitation after his tuberculosis.
... I ask Quebecois just know that TB is hyper-virulent but it is largely isolated from Russian prisons and Africa with AIDS: Quossai qu'vous would you do?! (I could not do anything, but if there was soap Din bathrooms, I would have gone in pwing * *).
- Samia took me to a bakery tonight. I saw multi-grain bread for the first time since my arrival. I had a tear in his eye.
- Yesterday, we ate at a nice restaurant not too far from Algiers home (but, since up to El Mouradia, it's not icky-popular). I ordered the couscous. Sat JUST told me before I took my first bite she does not eat the couscous in a restaurant, because a) it is a common dish we often eat at home and b) it a dish to prepare, requires a lot of manipulation. With hands (Yes the French students, I know it's a redundancy). The same hands that used to wipe your buttocks defecate in bathrooms without soap.
... I managed to swallow all my big dish. 'To believe that I forgot the American ideas of hygiene.
- In front of the restaurant, there was a building with a banner advertising something (I do not remember the three words in Arabic). I asked Sam what it meant in a totally banal.
... three words form the acronym "Hamas", ironically, "Coalition for Peace" Arabic (well, there is a missing word, but basically it). Yes, an Algerian political party is affiliated to the sick-mentally in Gaza who launch rockets from schools and hospitals that perform or pull in the knees of Fatah members after Israeli attacks in January to consolidate power in their little strip of land. AND some ministers belong to the party here (including one where I just spent six weeks).
a revelation for a Canadian.
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