Cultural night

Earlier in the week I attended cultural night sponsored by the men's campus.  It was great and I have many pictures to post but nausea and life got in the way.  In the meantime, here's a pic I took of the Palestinian group I saw perform last week:

I saw the guys getting ready and I asked if I could get a picture of the group.  I waited as they tied the scarfs around their shoulders and around their waists.  And I waited.  As others came they retied them for each other.  I waited 30 minutes for the picture and I am not exaggerating to say each had their scarfs retied 3x during that time.  It reminded of high school in the 1980's when guys would spend two minutes of the four minutes between classes checking their hair in the mirror.

 After a group photo they invited me to join them.

I have no idea what made me take a wide stance.

As this picture was taken I commented, "I can't wait for my Jewish friends in the US to see this."

That didn't go over so well.

I'm glad to know social awkwardness is something I'll have with me for a lifetime.