A couple nights ago we had the distinct privilege of attending an awards ceremony wherein CEOSS annually bestows honor and certificates upon worthy partners in the development field. We were told by our supervisor Medhat that it was an extraordinarily fun event, that everyone dresses up in their best finery, and that the music was wonderful. Oh, and that it would only last 20-30 minutes. Turns out few of those things were true. Many of the men were indeed wearing suits, as I did, but none of the other women had on dresses like Milli's. The music turned out to be a DVD of a Yanni concert, which they let run for almost half an hour! Quite strange (but no on else seemed to think so from our observance). Needless to say, it lasted a bit longer than 20-30 minutes... And it was in Arabic. One of our friends (loudly) translated for us for a bit. The most interesting part was that one of the award recipients was blind and read his acceptance speech with three placards of braille.
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