A market near the farm. Rural shopping areas in Pakistan are noisy and crowded. The women are shopping for colorful bangles on the eve of the Eid feast.
Getting a mehndi tatoo in the same market.
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Postcard from Pakistan No.2
Posted in Culture, Expat, NaBloPoMo, Pakistan, tagged NaBloPoMo, Pakistan, Photos, Postcard on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
B is For Bread
Posted in Baking, Cooking, Culture, Expat, Favorite things, Food, Honduras, Life, Memories, NaBloPoMo, Recipes, tagged Baleadas, Cooking, Expat, Flatbread, Food, Honduras, Tortillas de Harina on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have tasted fancy dishes and eaten at fine restaurants many times in my life. I have sampled the strange and unfamiliar. I have found fresh favorites and discovered new ingredients, but nothing tastes so delicious to me as the flatbread I ate as a child.
Tortillas de harina, a bread made out of wheat flour and enriched [...]
Beautiful Life
Posted in Culture, Expat, Life, NaBloPoMo, Opinion, Pakistan, tagged Culture, Fashion Week, Life, NaBloPoMo, Pakistan on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FASHION WEEK IN KARACHI, day 4
Originally uploaded by www.first-pakistan.blogspot.com
Pakistani women love fashion. At least, the women that I know. Trips to shop for fabric, lace, buttons and other notions are a weekly chore, and the tailor’s bill and punctuality a constant subject of conversation.
I have in the past been exasperated and impatient with what I’ve [...]
A Different Mindset
Posted in Culture, Expat, Life, NaBloPoMo, Pakistan, tagged Culture, Expat, Life, NaBloPoMo, Pakistan, Women on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every Tuesday for the past year I have been reading an advice column that appears in the women’s section of the English-language newspaper that we get delivered to our home.
I like to read it because it gives me a chance to learn about the issues that the women who write asking for advice are facing [...]
Gray Day
Posted in About me, Blogging, Expat, Family, Life, Motherhood, NaBloPoMo, Pakistan, Rants, tagged Blogging, homesick, Life, Motherhood, NaBloPoMo, Pakistan, Rants on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m feeling pretty sorry for myself today. It’s been one of those days when everything piles on and I don’t have the strength to put on a happy face.
The word “Mama” being uttered every five minutes jars on my nerves. I am homesick, and loneliness feels like a load on my shoulders that I can’t shake off. I [...]
All The Pleasures Prove
Posted in About me, Culture, Expat, Family, Favorite things, Life, Pakistan, Roots, tagged Expat, homesick, Life, Pakistan, United States on July 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My summer in America has begun, and as I mulled words and tried out sentences while writing this post, it became clear to me that every pleasure I have enjoyed since I landed a little more than two weeks ago, from taking a walk in the soft morning sunshine, to the quiet comfort of my parents’ [...]
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