Return to Yemen

I am now back in Yemen. Both flights back here went quite well, though admittedly on the Delta flight to Frankfurt the movie system wasn't working so the only TV I got was a Numb3rs episode on Justin's ipod. Our reentry into Sana'a occured perfectly, we walked into the airport, were third in line for passport control, got all 8 bags while most other people there were struggling to get 2 or 3, walked right past security without them opening any of our bags, and had Faris pick us up and take us home. Probably record time for our family. Security didn't even comment on my laptop bag, which had like 20 cds and movies in it, which was nice. On the way home we stopped at Yamal-El-Sham and picked up shuarmas which was sweet. Then, on the way home, we discovered that one of the streets leading into our house was torn up, and were unsure how to get in. Fortunately, our landlord happened to be walking home at exactly that time, and we picked him and he told us how to our house. Our street was half torn up, the roadwork stopped just before the door of our house. Talk about amazing luck! Apparently they plan to tear it up within a day or two though, we're just hoping that they wait until we are in China for them to do it. When we got home, we ate, unpacked the duffel bags, and went to sleep. I then slept for 15 hours straight (could be a new record for me...). When I woke up I promptly got on the internet, and had fun blogging and checking my email. I think I'll go take a nap now though...

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Last night I went to the Shakespeare tavern and watched "The Complete Works of Shakespeare." It was performed by a total of three actors who managed to complete the show in less than 2 hours. Naturally, the plays were rather condensed and happened quite quickly. They also changed some of the plays rather drastically. For example, in order to "bring the plays into a more contemporary setting" they performed Titus Andronicus as a cooking show and converted another play (which I no longer remember the name of) into a rap song. The rap song was pretty funny, even though they were terrible rappers (hm...three white guys who have probably never rapped before in their entire lives...what a surprise). The funniest play they did was Hamlet. The first time through Hamlet they recruited the audience to help them a bit, and even got one member of the audience to play Ophelia. The rest of the audience then played Ophelia's mind, a very confused mind. After finishing Hamlet once, they then redid it very, very quickly. They then did it again even faster. Then, as a finale, they did the entire thing backwards. The two funniest bits of that were when the ghost appeared and went "oob" and Ophelia undrowned. The whole performance was hilarious, and I am very glad that I decided to go instead of babysitting Anjuli.

A confession

Recently, I committed a heinous crime. I told my dad to download Windows Media Player onto his beautiful new, pure Macbook. And I did all for the sake of a few hours of happiness on the other computer, which he would have taken with him to Houston. Sadly, I knew of no other program that would allow him to play .wmv files on his mac. Oh well. It was worth it. I got in a lot of games of C&C Generals.

Recently, my life has been great. Just about every day, my Grandpa takes me out to eat to some junk food place or another, and when I am not eating, I am playing on the computer, reading a book or watching TV (or occasionally doing all three at once). I have also been sleeping to around 11 or so every morning. Of course since I also go to bed in the morning I'm not entirely sure how much good that is doing me. But it is still fun. The only blight on this otherwise wonderful existence is my mom's insistence on occasionally doing family outings, which are invariably pointless and boring. *sigh* Apparently going to meaningless events together promotes "bonding." Maybe someday I will understand this and I will forgive my mother for wasting hours of my time with pointless exercises.