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9 Things That Will Happen When Your Diaspora Friends Come Home For Summer
Summer is nearing, and that means all your diaspora friends are going to be making their way back home. That also means you’re about to enjoy (for lack of better words) a bunch of exclusive experiences that can only happen when your diaspora friends come around during the summer.
Good luck…
1. You’ll go broke trying to keep up with their outings
In the famous words of Lady Gaga: NO SLEEP, BUS, CLUB, ‘NOTHER CLUB, ‘NOTHER CLUB, PLANE, NEXT PLACE
2. You’ll get sucked into their Batroun mania and plan a trip together
They must scratch that itch of not visiting Batroun for an entire year.
3. They will want to visit every new café and dikkene that opened since they last left
And they’ll start pressuring you to find a new place for them to visit every single week. If you need a list of new places, we’ve got you.
4. They’ll forget you actually work on weekdays and can’t take the day off to hang out with them
“Mafik tekhod nhar 3otle? Ah 3anjad? Ma3le f2a3a kezbe ennak marid”
Sure, let me risk my employment for you.
5. You’ll get an earful of what they remember from “ayem l 1500” before they left
“Omg hay ken 7a22a alfen ekher marra jeet” YES THINGS HAVE CHANGED
6. And you’ll be hearing a lot of “ne7na 3enna b [insert Western country name here]”
So interesting. Please tell me more. I love to hear this. Over and over and over…
7. You’ll see more of Lebanon in a week than you have your entire life
KHALAS PLEASE
8. You’ll have to teach them how to ye7sbo l dollar (like you do every summer because it’s doubled since last time)
You feel like a math genius only very briefly because you remember you don’t even know how to te7zob l dollar
9. They’ll be updating you on all their wild stories of last minute trips to Barcelona with random people they met
Shu b seer ma3on bas yfello? Hello? Stranger danger?
Cover image retrieved from Travel&Leisure.
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