I've Got Mail!
23 Oct 2022 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhackThank you, thank you, thank you
asakiyume for the awesome jaguar postcard and the beautifully evocative letter about your trip. I felt like a part of me was there with you. <3
...and voilà feet in flipflops here in Lebanon. asakiyume will understand why.
asakiyume will understand why.A little factoid, apropos of flipflops in Lebanon and the way people view others: I can wear flipflops and not be judged because I am white. My Haitian American friend, S, will not wear flipflops in public because many Lebanese treat her like she is "help" because of her skin color (and flipflops are supposedly poor people's shoes). A very unpleasant side to life in Lebanon is the live-in help culture. Some day I will try to take a photo of the "maid's room" in our flat and talk about this, to me, shameful part of how the 'rich' live here. But this is a happy post and not the place for it.
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Date: 23 Oct 2022 05:23 pm (UTC)Thank you for welcoming the letter--it was so firehose switched-to-transmit, I feel a little embarrassed!
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Date: 24 Oct 2022 07:42 am (UTC)It can! And here, I haven't really had it come up, but in Egypt, it was very rude to point the soles of your barefeet at someone. So many things to be aware of in every country/culture.
And don't feel embarrassed! I loved the immediacy and the feeling that I was experiencing things *with* you.