first, my mudeer (principal) recently bought a new doorbell for the center. it's one of the ones that has a receiver that you plug into the wall that plays the music, and a battery operated button that you use adhesive to stick outside your door. or at leas that is where it is intended to go. my mudeer decided to keep the button in the drawer of his desk instead. that way, after people come in, he can press the button so the music announces their presence. it also allows him to draw more attention to the fact that our center has a doorbell that can play multiple different songs and is operated by battery. so now when someone visits the center this is what you hear: them knocking, someone yells "fuut (come in)", the door opens and slams, a big round of greetings, everyone settles into the office, doorbell rings, my mudeer laughs for a minute and a half, doorbell rings again, tea drinking commences.
second, i went with this woman who works at the government social-support kind of building. i'm not sure exactly what it is, but if someone needs a wheelchair or a walker or something they get it from them. i'm sure they do other things but i don't know what they are. yesterday i needed to go into the city to get my mail. the customs man who has to check all my packages ends his day at noon; my center closes at noon. so i had to leave work early to get a ride to the center of the village so that i could catch a bus to Mafraq. i asked this woman to take me in her car, and she said we had to stop in at her work first. so we walk into this two story government building. inside the first room we come to has about 10 women sitting in chairs, most of them with kids on their laps, shooting the breeze and drinking tea. we go upstairs past lots of empty rooms. on the second floor i hear what sounds like a hair dryer. we open a door and inside there is a mini beauty salon, five women and four little kids. a woman was getting her hair dyed and straightened. i didn't ask why it was there.
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