Happy Things

• A week of vacation from teaching and language study . . . lots of extra sleep!
• The smiling young guy in the umbrella hat and ribbed sweater who helps me get a Green 1 debab between teaching and language school
• The ducan near school that has almost everything
• Declining a movie night in favor of watching "Batman Begins" at home, then hearing that that was the movie everyone chose to watch (I was still happy to stay home.)
• Skype conversations with family
• Baking
• An invitation for Thanksgiving
• Local hospitality
• A package on the way from home!
• My Sony eReader and NH Downloadable Books
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• Road trips
• The little restaurant my housemates and I now frequent
• Cheese samboosa, falafel, and schwarma
• My ducan randomly stocking corn starch, which I had been searching for for months
• When my students call me by my first name (as I've asked them to) at youth group
• Protection on the roads