When Life Gives You Yemen...

Make Yemenaid...

I'm feeling oddly nostalgic for Yemen today. Dunno why, really. Nothing about today is particularly Yemeni. Anyway, I've made a far-from-comprehensive-list of things I learned over there.

1. Salta Fahsah is divine, but it doesn't ship well so I have to go back if I'm ever going to have it again.
2. Pole-dancing is the most fun a person can have.
3. I'm not a cheap drunk.
4. Lebanese men are furry and have strange ideas about post-coital conversation topics.
5. If you leave your clothes out to dry and it rains, they'll be dirtier than they ever were before you washed them.
6. Kamarans are the best cigarettes in the world.
7. On a good day, the big supermarket on Hadda Street has both smoked salmon and REAL Cheetos (not the sad, sad imitation otherwise known as bifk).
8. Yemen can't meet the sanitation standards for either McDonald's or Burger King, however they do have a Pizza Hut and KFC.
9. Elevators are beautiful, beautiful things.
10. The Sana'a skyline is oddly suggestive at night when the mosques are covered in lights.
11. It is very nasty when a taxi driver licks your hand.
12. Many people consider "I fuck you" to be an acceptable pick-up line.
13. I hate teaching English.
14. Snow Cream is good, but sometimes nothing beats a "Big Dig" at Baskin Robbins.
15. Marines are very silly people.
16. Drunken Norwegians like to moo and sing their national anthem (although not at the same time)
17. Emirates is the most fantastic airline. Ever.
18. The Russian Embassy throws good parties.
19. Females smoking in public can stop traffic (which is a good source of amusement)
20. It's good to be a blonde.