30 Biso/Beeso Biso, Riri's 10 year old, my former student who gave me tension headaches, has arrived He's the baby of the family He is a teeny unappreciated genius and I adore him And he's going to give me an aneurysm one day He's also extremely sarcastic and rude to Baba and it's hilarious "What surah (prayer) did you memorize this week Biso?" "Oh that tutor's calling tomorrow" "So let's hear the surah" "GRANDPA HES CALLING TO MO RROOOW" *starts pointing to his head and makes a questioning gesture ie, are you losing your marbles old man?* He ran around baba's chair laughing when baba tried to grab him Then we built sandcastles, collected pebbles FOR HOURS to make cool looking walls He did a really good job And I saw the evil twinkle in his eye before he chose violence BISO DONT YOU DARE *** HUUULK SMAAAASH *** YOU LITTLE *** BUAAAAHAHAHAHAHA *** So I picked him up and ran to the water where we could both get beat up by the waves for a while A cute little 11/12 year old girl was jumping around screaming I said in Arabic "don't worry habibty it's just weird plastic not jellyfish" And she replied in English " it's just my friend got stung yesterday" AWWW AN AMERICAN BABY I know honey, I'm scared of them too but I've been here a while and it's all just cut up plastic sheets I promise "Okay thanks tante" Sheee calls me tante, Biso "She doesn't know you...ya SARAAAAH" I GUESS SOMEBODY HAS A DEATH WISH TODAY I chased devil Biso a while Sat with his mom who said she wants to move here Me first Baba and Tante Z chatted about some village characters I decided to walk to the pool and get in some laps Biso came along and we chatted about his favorite superheroes "Spiderman is number 1 of course, then Ironman" I thought you liked Flash "Oh yeah okay--Spiderman then Flash THEN Ironman theeen..." "Wait DC or Marvel or both?" I have no idea Biso, I read Archie and Jughead "What are their superpowers?" Love triangles "Sounds lame" You won't think so in 5 years " YAAA3333 " (Egyptian ewww) Cousin Aly and Cat-in-law are coming up again for a few days She just texted asking for a call Too tired I'll just call and yawn at her I don't think I ever have to go to a gym if I keep babysitting Biso |