It's a girl !

After many weeks of suspense and guessing on the timing of birth of Serwat's baby, it finally happened... 3 days ago... it's a girl !

I haven't seen it yet, because stayd in the village this week where it was relatively quite. The house was almost empty, as Mama and Sabah, 1 of the eldest sisters was staying with Serwat for a few days and Amtie Fozie was in Kafaramme taking care of Hadji or Dzjidde (Grandfather).

Yesterday evening I came back to Aleppo for 1 night. The house is empty, as Serwat and family are staying at her brother's apartment and Moonaf, the student living in another room of the house is spending the weekend in his village.

Today, we are leaving for a few days to stay with a friend near Afamia.

I'll probably spend the rest of the week in the village(s) again, but you never know, because I learnt by now that you cannot make a planning here. I am not a planner, but the few times that I decided to do something on a particular day or time, a proposition is coming up to go and travel a few days or to pay a visit to family or friends. And when I say that I really have to do something that particular day or time, I am asked why.

There are 2 things they don't understand here : that I need to be on my own from time to time and that I want to do things by myself.

Now that the house is empty for a few weeks, they want me absolutely to stay in the village the whole time, because it's not safe nor good for me to stay there alone. I'll meet them for 2/3 of the time. And sometimes I'll have to disappoint them.

By the way... the baby hasn't got a name yet, because it is a girl. For a boy, it would be the name of Khaled's father without any questioning. The family is betting on Christel or Helen. I think it'll be Helen. Maybe, it will be another name. We will see.