Day 23: A Closed Soup-Loop

Sunday, July 14

Cultural Adventures: Ramadan Edition

Part 4: Exceptions

We have a short episode today. I simply wanted to note that not every single Muslim has to practice Ramadan. There are, naturally, a few exceptions. Fasting is obligatory for adult Muslims, except for those who are ill, travelling, pregnant, diabetic, or are having their lady-week. Children also don't have to participate until they reach puberty, but often they fast for parts of some days, or for one day on the weekend or something.

"Nope. I honestly have no idea what cake you're talking about."

Sunday was pretty lazy, I'll admit. I slept until noon:thirty for like the first time since being here. It wasn't so hot that the sun woke me up this time. It was lovely.

Then I spent the day occasionally working on homework and talking on Skype. But most importantly, on Sunday I took a shower. It'd had been a while. Shower days are always good days.

On a side note: Unfortunately, every day since the beginning of Ramadan, and the previous 7 days before that (save for 1 day), we've been eating soup. And you know... I like the soup. I do. It's good. But... after 11 days straight of almost the exact same soup, I'm over it. Y'know, I'm just over it. Technically, the soups are different soups, but the way that Noura uses spices and such, they all end up tasting the same in the end anyway. Sometimes they have more teeny noodles in them. Sometimes they have more vegetable bits in them. Either way, it's mostly liquid, the flavor of the soup itself is always so strong that you can't taste whatever is in it anyway. It's all just mush at that point. Soup and mush.

"Goodnight nobody. Goodnight mush." 

My night every night.