Monday, November 16, 2009

Out & about in the neighborhood


Since I've been teaching English a bit lately, I've been walking to the houses of my students (some of whom are university professors :P ) and taking some photos of the area.

Some neighborhood houses:

I love this house's garden. I'll try to get a better photo next time, but you can see how much landscaping they do.
I love this one - see the tiling & the minute details that decorate the beige part of the house? And the style of the roof?




And here's an apartment building:





Plus, an ad for the local cell phone provider (you can see the pretty Arabic script) on the side of the bus stop on the main avenue of the neighborhood:



Plus, some innovative advertising for Activia!:





Here are some photos I took while walking back from the house of a little boy I tutor. His mother is a decorator and traveled around Tunisia salvaging tiles from old homes to put in hers. Her house is so beautiful - hopefully I'll get a picture of the actual interior of the house to show you. Here are 2 photos I took on my walk back.

Here's a picture of a hill next to a hospital in their neighborhood. You can see the ads on the sides of apartment buildings in the distance.



And a florist, on the big avenue in the neighborhood across the intersection, at dusk.


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