Christmas

As Christmas is fast approaching we decided it was time to start celebrating. Although I will spend christmas in the Sahara this year, my friends and I decided an early christmas dinner was also required.

We headed to the historically packed Carthage. It was a great night full of music, laughs and dancing!!!!

Santa even came, we all went home with something exciting!

Like this scarf and jacket, excellent Kris Kringle gifts!!! but then people just got really into the dancing....

Those Tunisian dance classes must be paying off, "Don't put your heel down!"

Arabic Calligraphy

Everyday our Arabic language classes start at 9am and run till 6pm. Although this is roughly a normal working day, I am always left absolutely shattered. So this afternoon the prospect of calligraphy class was amazing.

I'll just say I love calligraphy, and although it is deceivingly complicated it is also oddly relaxing.

Look how good I am at writing my name..

We are normally pretty proud of ourselves.. Great Work Betty!!!!

Look Who I Found In Hammamet...

Bonjour From Tunis...

I didn't really know a lot about Tunisia before I arrived. I have never really been one for history or even geography for that matter, but I guess I've always been willing to learn. So far I've learnt that there is a lot of dirt in Tunisia. Dirt and oranges.

I've also learnt how to say orange in Arabic ( برتقال pronounced Bortukal for the fruit and برتقالي Bortukali for the colour ), yet to learn dirt but maybe that will be this weeks task. I'm currently learning Arabic calligraphy and also Tunisian dance, and I've also located Tunisia on a world map.

This is a picture of my street, complete with the famous Tunisian dust and an orange. Enjoy

Travel

I am currently living in Tunisia, completing a university exchange and have therefore decided to transform this mediocre blog into an out of this world travel journal.

Keep you eyes pleeled for some truly excting stuff....