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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Zeitoon: Day 2

Here are some pictures from our second day of zeitoon picking:

The path from Abu Sohaib's house (where we live) to the farm

You can see the farm in the distance (it's the plot of land with all the green trees on the righthand side).

This is Nuah, Mos'ab's brother, picking some zeitoon. (Always a good occasion for a cigarette?)

Who's that guy? ;) If you ask someone in the village, they'd say, "That's Kamal!"

From left: Mos'ab, Kamal (me), Nuah, Mawia, and Hatim (Tom); all the Shakhanbeh brothers minus Sohaib and 'Brahim

We had a delicious lunch of rashoof, which is a traditional Jordanian meal. It has a base layer of a kind of soggy bread and is covered with many delicious vegetables and drenched in jameed (a yogurt-like sauce)--it's zaki (delicious)!

Tom and I polish off the rashoof.

Mos'ab, lookin' cool

Mawia was quite good with my camera and took this cool close-up of a dragonfly resting on one of the smaller zeitoon trees.

All in a day's work!
Abu Sohaib owes us some serious oil! Just kidding--I would volunteer to do this work every day. 

This week all the volunteers are taking trips to visit our future permanent sites, so I'll be in Tafila for a couple of days. Be on the lookout for pictures and stories at the end of next week!

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