As we left Le Kef, we were mobbed by these students on a break during school. Our Tunisia handbook reveals that there is a special word in Arabic that you only use on excited kids to tell them to go away; it's rude to use that word on other people that you want to go away. But I like the attention. Notice also, that whatever folkloric buffoon to whom they may be analogizing us in their private dialect, they aren't trying to sell us carpets.