The weekends are Thursdays and Fridays with Thursdays being the better day to go shopping when stores are open in the morning hours. However, this Thursday I went to school to spend the day in the room catching up with everything. Student numbers are higher than last year and the average class size is about 15 students compared to 13 last year. After sitting for 6 hrs my butt said it is time to leave. New teacher Nick was finishing up too and we walked over to the nearby sandwich shop. This is a convenient place to get a decent omelet or egg sandwich and fresh juice.
On the way home the restaurant a group of us were going to this evening called asking us it would be better to come for Iftar to break fast about 6:45pm. That meant I had to call or knock on doors to let people know the change in plans. When all was said and done we had 12 people going for dinner. Ali took us in the van and going anywhere in Jeddah is an adventure if you don’t know where it is.
Location is based on points of interests or landmarks or roundabouts but rarely street names. Even though I have been to this place before I was a little shaky on where to turn right. We ended up on a mini goose chase – no surprise there, but it is frustrating. A man from the restaurant had to stand on the street corner to flag us down telling us which street to turn down. We ended up arriving there the original time we set.
The Iftar food was on the table and we sat down to our teaser appetizer. We were all hungry and wanted more of the parokas but that was it. We had a nice feast of biryanis, mutton ginger, butter chicken and lots of naan. It was a pleasant crowd and a successful night out.
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