Not quite holiday - part two

At some point during the day we were looking to have some time to ourselves as a group, we needed to chat, pray and recover from the amazingness of the first 24 hours in the city. After going back to Adbul's for a while we headed with him and Jamar (another teacher) to their favorite restaurant, I don't remember the name something with lamb in it. It was all in Arabic so we didn't have a clue what was being ordered, we assumed that it would be all good anyway, the food on the trip so far had been killer so why not then? Once it was all said and done Abi had counted 23 plates of food on the table, this was salad, chips, and many different meats including; beef patty like things, beef, half chicken, sheep stomach, liver, chicken stomach, and not sure what the other meat was, it was for the most part quite tasty. After stuffing ourselves we were keen to go off and search for the food we needed to prepare an English meal. We didn't know how we were going to make the English meal, seeing that we had no ingredients, 2 sauce pans and cooking over a propane fire with nothing else, it sure wasn't like home. After some discussion and wandering we found the market and purchased rice, coffee, sugar and other bits. Then we found the fresh veggies and bought a bunch of them. The meat portion of our meal was concerning, would it be chicken, lamb or beef? We went with lamb for whatever reason I'm not sure and so we stopped by the butcher and I baaaa'ed to show that we wanted sheep. They knew what we meant and after attempting to communicate we noticed that the lady standing next to us spoke enough English that we could get by with what she knew, yet again God's provision in a time of need. We were then off to the cafe to catch some time with God and with each other praying. Sitting in the middle of a cafe reading the Bible and praying was a great catch up time and energizing as we knew that the remainder of the night might not be the easiest from a spiritual perspective.
After arriving back Abi started cooking at about 7:30 or so, to let you know how the evening went we ate at about 10:30. The three hours between were great, we cut veggies, chatted and had a blast and welcomed yet another visitor into the house. Abdul had invited the Islamic thought teacher from his school to join us, he was a very nice man who brought fresh bread that his wife had made. Conversation turned quickly to spiritual ideas, and the discussion about what we thought of Muslims, what they thought of Christians, what the view of the media was and so on. Honest discussion was the recipe of the evening, everyone involved except for Tony who was lying down, he was nackered and not feeling well. The Lamb a la International was tasty, we were somewhat surprised that it worked out, Abi did a great job of whipping it up from scratch. After supper they guys had us watch a short television program, and then we all remembered that they wanted to watch us pray much like we watched them pray the evening before. It was quite amazing as we prayed, worshipped, sang, read the Bible and had observers the whole time. We met with the Lord there in Jamar's bedroom and then all of sudden the 9 of us were dancing and taking pictures of each other. What a great way to end the time there, because we were shattered and off to bed we went.