Eid Begins

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Each day at prayer time we can hear the prayers being broadcast from the mosque near us (I am under the assumption that this can be heard no matter where in the city you live). The first prayer time has been around 4:50 AM (specific times are published in the paper each day) and then another at around 6 AM. When I wasn't sleeping through the night yet, I was always awake for the 4:50 AM one and would go upstairs because it was almost time to get up at that point and knew I had to try to sleep a little. The broadcast prayers only last a couple of minutes (less than five, I'm sure).

This morning was the start of Eid so the 6ish prayers lasted what seemed to be about 30-45 minutes (I didn't actually look at the clock when they started). We all ended up waking up early because it was so long and seemed louder (maybe because there was less road traffic this morning?). Anna didn't wake up (start talking) until about 7:15 but that's a good 45 minutes earlier than usual for her!

I wanted to go check out the book store today but a lot places are closed in the mornings for the next few days for the holiday. So we ended up going to Carrefour (at the Villagio) and got a few groceries and a cordless phone with answering machine. We got some pretty good groceries there so I am going to do my next weekly shopping trip at that Carrefour instead of Mega Mart to see if I can spend less and see if we are happy with the selection there (there will be less American products, of course, but there's a really good looking cheese section—Carrefour is a French hypermarket).

Also, I wanted to note that there is a really great blog about Qatar called Qatar Visitor (link on the right now) that has a lot of interesting articles about life here in Doha. There was a good post about Eid today. We saw just one pickup truck with two goats in the back today but we didn't realize the significance until I read the post on that blog.

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I guess these are the unforeseen things that you experience in a new culture. I hope to hear some of this when I am there.

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