Lablebi for breakfast

I’ve gotten in the habit of doing my shopping at the local markets early Sunday mornings. This week I decided I would try to find a popular breakfast spot as well. The Lablebi stand had the most people, so I went there. I’d never had this spicy chickpea soup over bread for breakfast before but I thought I’d give it a try. Even though the cook went light on the hot sauce, it still made my nose run. It was pretty tasty though. After a few minutes a women joined me at my table, as she was also on her own.We chatted a little and talked about how the servings were too big to finish. It was a fun way to start the day!

Amazing Starfish Cactus

First Soccer Game

I finally got to go to a soccer game in the stadium right next to my house. Tunisia played against Guinea and won 2-0!

Fishing trip

 
Though I don’t have any pictures to prove it, we did catch five fish. They were really small but still big enough to keep and use for spicy fish soup!

Give me back my cat!

My roommate’s Swiss friends fell in love with a little street kitten while they were visiting. They were worried it wouldn’t survive because one of its legs didn’t work properly, so they asked a stranger if he would take it. He said yes but the next night it was on the street again. On their last night here they brought the kitten back to our house and convinced one of our local friends to take it. They were very excited that night because they had rescued a poor little kitten during their time here. Early the next morning an elderly lady from down the street knocked on our door. All she said was “my cat.” I was so embarrassed and apologized profusely as I gave her kitten back. (Luckily we hadn’t given it to our local friend yet!)

I laughed afterwards about how our visitors thought they had done a good deed, but our neighbors probably thought they were cat thieves. I’m pretty sure I have done lots of things that seemed great to me, but seemed weird, rude, or wrong to locals. This little incident reminded me that it’s so important to get advice and feedback from our local friends and neighbors.