Are you getting tired of Ramadan?

Ramazan is impacting me more and more -- generally in favorable ways.

Last night I went to an "iftar" at one of my student's homes. First, the house was gorgeous. This to remind us of how rich our students are. Besides that, though, her mother has a real sense of style and the place was beautifully decorated. She also proudly showed off her her lovely needlework and wowed us with her cooking. She and her husband are from the southeast of Turkey which has a different style of food and it was great. Also plentiful. We ate like the starvelings we were.

As they have 2 children in the school, there were three teachers invited, plus the students each brought friends and some of them brought parents. Altogether there were about 20 eating and there was plenty left over.

And she gave us each a necklace! I am liking this part of the season more and more.

Downsides:

Our school has a beautiful swimming pool. It is currently closed because a swimmer might get water in their mouth and break their fast! They did say that I could use it but then pointed out that they has turned the heater off for the month. It was cold enough with it on!

They have also stopped refilling the bottled water and have turned off the water fountains.

As my "infidels fast" does not include liquids, this leaves me with tap water to drink. Tap is safe to drink here but doesn't taste very good. It also doesn't get cold.