Apparently I look Australian.
I went to a beauty parlor with a cousin of M's today to have mehendi put on my hands and feet for the wedding. At first, we were almost the only ones in there, but after a while there were lots of women, even a few kinds, and lots of chatter. Some of the women who came afterwards hadn't heard me speaking in Urdu, so I guess they didn't know not to talk about me right in front of me. They decided I was from Australian, and they wondered what I was doing all the way over there since I was staying in Defense (the nicer part of the city with all the big houses.) Then they decided that it was nice that such a good beautician was doing my mehendi since this was the first time I was ever getting it done. Wrong on all counts.
14 comments:
lol
kudos to you for being able to understand all that! :)
hahah, that was funny Sis. Wow, so you've learned a good amount of Urdu, that rocks! Can you bust out some Urdu on a post? (Sorry if you have before, I am one of your new followers!)
So did you set them straight?
Hahahahaha
lol :-P. So did you tell them you can understand Urdu? That must have been the funniest part of it all (if it did happen)
That happened to me too. It's funny, lol.
G'Day
That was so funny! My husbands family lives around there somewhere :D
Lol...people are always assuming stuff. Everyone in Dubai thinks I'm Arab and seem to get offended when they realise I'm not :s
lol!! I don't think that any of the aunties at the masjid know I speak Urdu (I'm living the Gori Fiance life lol) and I always love hearing what they have to say about me and other people. :-P Sometimes I want to join in, but it's so much more fun to feign ignorance!
lol. I think what would ignore me actually, just because i dont' like to be assumed about. but they seemed nice enough. You silly Australian lol
hahaha come on! u have to follow that all up by saying something, very casually, to your companions in urdu...very casual..as if u had not been listening to their conversation at all :)
hehe that's too rich! like everyone else, i wanna know if you spoke up. i wish i knew more arabic. i only know enough to know i'm being spoken about but not what's being said about me! which is almost worse because it could be completely innocent, and yet here i am, feelin' all suspicious and stuff. :)
I'm taken for an indian ALL THE TIME in the US. Kinda got used to it after a while :)
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