I didn’t get that much sleep!

Khaleh, Afghans call all ladies Khaleh; means aunty and I started to call the old lady, Khaleh too. She has a son and grandson in another part of United Imarets, which is about two hours away from Dubai. She hasn’t met them for almost 4 years. I learned that she is living with her other child in Denmark. I was really impressed with her courage of traveling half of the world with herself while she is absolutely illiterate! Any how when her children heard that all the flights from Dubai is cancelled they had tried to find her. And they succeeded just at 6pm, when I was hoping that I can get a long night sleep! The story is she needed to get visa to be able to get out of the airport and visit her family, but now she was in the city. It was a dramatic, emotional reunion ;-) suddenly there were 4 extra people in our hotel room. Very sweet. I didn’t mind sitting there and seeing them talking in their sweet Dari language, which now I got used to it. Some times can be very confusing since they use different word usage than in Persian we speak in Iran.

So I got to learn so much about the family, and hear all the stories. They were a middle class family, who had hard time to support themselves and also during the years of war have been refugee in different places, Iran, Pakistan and at the end in Dubai. Her son has a wife and daughter who meets them just two times a year. They live in Kabul, but he is working in Dubai to earn some money. I thought this is hard!
Around midnight they decided to go to the city, it seems that there are some shops that are open 24 hours. Her son wanted to buy a dress for her 4 years old daughter, but he wouldn’t know how tall she is; I was trying to choose something fun! But they told me it should be long.

They were very nice people, very simple and kind. We got back to hotel, I slept for an hour and Khaleh prayed to thank god for letting her meeting her family. Her children were kidding her that you prayed to god for preparing the condition on meeting each other, god accepted your wish but it cost 14 people going to hospital! And the whole airport was closed! (referring to the accident) we were joking with her and laughing so much.