I don't know if any of you picked up on this, but there was international press coverage about "two Americans in Sanaa who were taken to the hospital and tested for swine flu." According to the article, the source, a member of the hospital's medical personnel who asked to remain annonymous, said the Americans exhibited, and I quote, "50% of the symptoms of swine flu." Which, incidentally, means they exhibited a fever. But anyway...
The two Americans were two of the guys here at the school where I'm studying. After going to the hospital to get checked on because of a high fever (at least half of us here have been down sick already in the first week we've been here), they returned to the school, only to have someone come back after them to request that they come back to be "tested" for swine flu. When they got back to the hospital, several men from the Ministry of Public Health showed up with clipboards to ask them questions. After quite some time, the man in charge stood up and announced, "I think no of you have swine flu!" and with that, the "test" was over.
We all got quite a kick out of the press story though. If only all the stories in our lives could be told with such finesse.
In other news, a bunch of us were invited to the marhkez of the guy who owns/runs this school today, and we got to hear some sweet Yemeni music played on the Uud while overlooking Sanaa at night. Talk about beautiful. There is a visiting professor here from William & Mary College who also plays and is checking out Sanaa in the hopes of doing some musicology research here in the future. While there I met a guy who runs an NGO here in Yemen who has invited me to come check out what "a Yemeni nonprofit looks like." While fully realizing many things are set in motion for targeted purposes, I am interested in checking this out and hope I'm able to before the summer ends.
masaa'a il-khier
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