... like when the call to prayer goes off and all of the soccer players stop to pray in the middle of the field at sunset while a father teaches his daughter to ride a bike for the first time in the foreground...
...or when the child at the next table over sticks a french fry in their nose and sticks their tongue out at you...
...and during the noontime prayer on Friday when everyone leaves their car with the keys still in the ignition in the middle of the road to walk to the nearest mosque...
...to the many schwarma restaurants with the towers of wet meat slowly spinning vertically in front of an open flame...
...to the countryside with wild hyenas and scorpions and deserts...
...especially when the rare covered girl smiles at you or greets you in English...
...and always when the little Malaysian girl who runs around with ice cream residue permanently stuck on her face runs up to you, says, "Hellohowareyouwhatsyourname," and runs away, probably to eat more ice cream...
I wish I had taken a photo of every one of these occurrences to illustrate this post, but then this post wouldn't really exist then, would it?
Watch out for those rare smiling uncovered girls, Bud.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many of those moments... and in the Middle East, you never know when it's coming
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