street signs and food

Being here just makes me happy. Whenever we drive I'm glued to the window, watching the signs in Arabic meander by. I don't know why being surrounded by Arabic lifts my spirits, but it does. The food has been amazing...and there's so much of it. I actually ate myself sick yesterday, which sucked because I couldn't eat much dinner. Hopefully I didn't do the same thing at lunch today. We've all been eating together, which means HUGE tables full of hummus, pitas, tabuli, roasted meats, and lots of other dip/spread-like things that I can't pronounce correctly. And french fries. At more than one restaurant, they put out french fries along with everything else. They were good french fries, too.