prayer

"put this over your face" "oh, anti jameela"

So I went and played with Yemeni children again today. This time, towards the end, I definitely was asked if I wanted to convert to Islam, (I was asked yesterday as well, but today I was all alone with my 12 words of Arabic-- none of them particularly religious) then why not, then what's this crossing oneself thing, then something about when I, or Christians, or something pray. That one is harder because how do you say, "no, we don't pray five times a day," when, maybe this communal motion is not your concept of prayer. Definitely communal prayer is not five times a day (unless you're a NUN). But for many Muslims (though maybe not here), they go to the mosque once a week, as we go to church. I don't know. I definitely don't know the Arabic for it either.