If you really want to feel like a foreigner, I would advise that while living abroad, in an effort to get to know your neighbor better, agree to go with her to the religious school where she teaches so you can teach English to several classes of 11th-grade Muslim girls who all cover their heads and are required to wear the school uniform of a long-sleeved dress/tunic over pants.
Good thing I knew more Turkish than they knew English. That kept me out of the “completely-foreign” box! However, still being the foreigner, there were plenty of girls who took pictures of me with their cell phones. I would have liked to have been a bug on the wall over their dinner tables Friday night!
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