June 15th.
Last night was a very important event for the local community due to the Lunar eclipse. I was told that Islam interprets an eclipse as a manifestation of their God's power to control parts of the universe and they go to special lengths to recognize it and align their worship activities around it. For example, the normal evening calls to prayer were altered to hold special gatherings. It was a bit eerie to hear the mosques call the faithful, and not see the usual collection of cars in the parking lot last night because of this special celestial occurrence.
To celebrate it our own way, David and I had a boy's night out due to both of our better halves being state side. We went grocery shopping and then to eat and finally back to camp to watch the eclipse. We found a nice spot on the camp's golf course (#4 tee), which by the way is all sand - no grass.
In the middle of all of this, a very surreal tone settled in. Here I was in the middle East, just had pan fried noodles and watching the moon being swallowed up by God's natural order of things - Boy could I use a Dr. Pepper right now!
Last night was a very important event for the local community due to the Lunar eclipse. I was told that Islam interprets an eclipse as a manifestation of their God's power to control parts of the universe and they go to special lengths to recognize it and align their worship activities around it. For example, the normal evening calls to prayer were altered to hold special gatherings. It was a bit eerie to hear the mosques call the faithful, and not see the usual collection of cars in the parking lot last night because of this special celestial occurrence.
To celebrate it our own way, David and I had a boy's night out due to both of our better halves being state side. We went grocery shopping and then to eat and finally back to camp to watch the eclipse. We found a nice spot on the camp's golf course (#4 tee), which by the way is all sand - no grass.
In the middle of all of this, a very surreal tone settled in. Here I was in the middle East, just had pan fried noodles and watching the moon being swallowed up by God's natural order of things - Boy could I use a Dr. Pepper right now!
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