3rd day is a Special Day

Good Morning Syria! It’s my 3rd day here and I’ve been so blessed to wake up with hubby by my side and apprently this is the 2nd night I haven’t sleep well. So far, I’m still looking for our bed back home (QA) and aside from that, it’s so hot at night. Parang Pinas din ang panahon dito. Grabe! That’s why in the afternoon when we left the AC guys came to install one in our room (master bedroom) w/c Mama doesn’t agree since she don’t need the AC that much. But hubby insist since it’s really so hot and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to sleep well upto our very last day… hehe!

Anyway, our plan for today was to go to the Optalmologist to have an eye-check. It went well… Honestly speaking, I wasn’t able to understand what the doctor was saying although he’s speaking English very well, but since it’s all medical terms – labas dito labas dun ang ginawa ko… hehe! All that matters for me is to have new eyeglassess that will make me feel okay and so to stop drinking EXTRA PANADOL for more than thrice a week as if it’s my vitamins. hehe!

We went back home after that…

Let me just make this as an opinion ha, the drivers here in Syria are all so weird! They all have their own lanes – grabe! Tapos ang mga tao hala nasa gitna ng daan. Nagugulat nalang ako’t may tatawid bigla tapos yung iba may dalang bisikleta. I said to Abed, that in the Philippines no one’s allowed in the road except the cars. I feel proud still of my own country. Kahit na taghirap tayo may disiplina naman sa daan. In fairness to the head of MMDA (w/c unfortunately I forgot the name, hehe!). I salute you for a job well done! I’m starting to think that Syria was like Philippines 10years ago. So delayed! Not to forget, the uniform of the police here are brown – parang Pinas talaga noon… hehe!

Another thing I noticed while going home is that all establishments have pictures of their President w/c is all so weird tome since in the Philippines I only see GMA’s picture if you’re working in a government office or sometimes a police station – hehe! Hubby told me that people here are forced to display pictures of the President to tell Americans that people here love their president so much that they don’t need a single help from them. You know that’s true. Here in Syria, you will not see anything MADE IN USA. Iba talaga! May sarili silang paninindigan – yun nga lang delayed parin. Government is not corrupt said Abed, it’s just that the government is more on supporting the Army rather than providing and making their country looks better.

When we got home, there’s no lights! My goodness! Uso rin pala dito ang black-out! hehe! Mama said that everyday as in everyday the government turn off all the lights in order to balance the Power of the country otherwise there will be a power failure. Over popullated kasi ang Syria so they turn off the power  for about an hour or 2. Oh diba? Only here in Syria!

I slept for about 30mins and then hubby woke me up to say that we’re going out  – again!

This time he didn’t say where…

We arrived in a place where 3 JEWELRY Shops are aligned… that’s the time I know what Abed’s planning to do.

As a traditions in Islam, the groom should buy gold for his bride as dowry. But when we got married in QA I didn’t asked for anything and no conditions at all. I told Sweety not to buy anymore since I know it’s expensive but he said that it’s his duty to buy me gifts.

The store was so crowded that I think there were 6 to 7 people inside plus the sales man 3 – more than 10 and all of them are curious to know why I’m there. They were all looking at me since there were 3 sets of gold infront of me and that Mama was beside me asking me to choose w/c one I like. I feel ashame on the other hand. They might think that I’m after the gold since I’m a foreign in their land. But on the other hand, I feel so proud that time… “hating me won’t make you pretty…” sabi nga nila… hehe!

When we get into the car to go home after choosing the gold sets, I cried in the car. Abed utter these phrase that made me cry more and burst into tears on the way home: “Stop thinking how expensive it is, you deserve it… just LOVE me..”

~ by Jhari on September 3, 2007.