Again, not much time to write, but just a few pictures...also, if I did write it would be very disjointed...so many impressions, new encounters, things I have never seen before.
Today: woke up early (Photo 1 is of my room) went to the office of HOOD again, from there with two volunteers of the organization to "Women Journalists Without Chains" a freedom of the press advocacy group. (In Yemen there are independent newspapers that publish fairly controversial stuff sometimes, but with the high illiteracy rate and low levels of circulation, even of the government papers, print media is not as influential as TV or radio, which the government controls). From there to a conference with multiple human rights groups, three Parliment members, a famous Yemeni journalist, representatives from Amnesty International, etc. Got contacts, lots of enthusiasm for the research; very cool. Now I just have to get the scholarship!
Then haggled over postcard prices--ended up getting a discount, and one more thrown in for free. Yemenis are awesome.
Mailed three, we'll see if they reach their destinations. I never heard whether those that I'd sent from Oman were ever received?
Tamam...then took a walk (2nd photo: this man invited me into his courtyard to photograph his door. If you look, you can see the bulge of qat in his cheek) Then went to CEFAS, a French research institute, (photo of bouganvilla flowers) then wandered Old Sana'a. Of course my camera ran out of batteries right before I saw all the most amazing photo possibilities, the last gasp of battery power went to the little girl and wheelbarrow. I am not sure what she was doing, but later I saw a whole group of little kids with them...maybe trash pickers. There are many beggars, hoemeless and poor people in Sana'a. Very different from Muscat. Bukra, insha'allah (Tomorrow, hopefully) I will get more photos.
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