Sherina B&B Amman

Ce soir je vous écris de ma grande suite royale d'un hôtel 5* à Amman en Jordanie... c'est drôle ce que la solitude peut faire... Il y a longtemps que j'ai eu ce sentiment (en fait ça remonte à l'Inde) de vivre et de voir plein de belles choses, sans pouvoir les partager. De voir autant de gens qui t'entourent, mais de se sentir seule. J'ai soup...

Like the Israelites fleeing from Egypt we, escaped the oppresion of Syria. Not that we didn't enjo our time in Syria...but we had some trying times. With Brian's illness and the problems with the bikes, we were quite restricted and spent much longer than expected - doing nothing!

With only a quick barter with the cabbie, we were speedin...

Saturday (cont.):

I forgot to mention that Nick arrived with all kinds of goodies for me. Of course most of it was in the suitcase that the airline lost but he still had some CDs for me some of my nicer clothes I requested and a bunch of lovely cards with much appreciated cash inside from family and friends. A big thank you to all who ...

11.15.09/11.16.09 Traveling Through Jordan To Amman

I had a bad night of sleep last night – now that the cat's out of the bag, it was more icky stomach stuff – so I woke up today (11.15.09) a little cranky. However, the morning did improve after another great breakfast at our village-y hotel, and after our first stops of the...

As you drive into Amman from the border, there is a series of numbered traffic circles: 7th circle, 6th circle, ..., the deepest circle in the heart of downtown being the 1st circle. The circles of Hell are numbered in increasing order, but that's about all that differentiates the two places.

OK OK, the food in Amman's probably better t...

So I was at the proposal meeting for 4 hours on Thursday night which is the equivalent of Friday night in the States so that kind of sucked. I mean you can only do other people's work that you know nothing about on an empty stomach for so long before you are done - 5alas. Bah. Since it turned into kind of an annoying and stressful night I had to...

The airport in Amman was a whole experience on its own. I arrive pretty tired from the flight and tried to get a visa. Since they are not used to Mexicans they stopped me for some questioning. After some questions they finally asked me if I was travelling with a Mexican guy who arrived earlier in the day. Finally after asking me everything abou...

The last couple of days I was kind of stressed realizing that DeVan is gone and I have no American friends and I need to find a new place to live, etc. Tuesday Mango took me out after work to check out some apartments. He has been looking for himself too so he knew of a few places. Sadly they were either small and expensive or giant and expensiv...

Back to Thursday:

Again my boss was absent so work mostly consisted of washing my feet in the sink after my long journey to work, blogging, talking with Yoichi (one of the Japanese interns), and reading up on FoEME. When it was time to go Baha dropped Yoichi and I off at the 8th Circle, we walked to the 7th Circle, and I boarded a bus t...

This is my first blog entry, and I was skimming through all my travel pictures since the past two years and have to sadly declare that they are all scattered throughout the USB Stick in the family's computer, in my brother's laptop's hard drive and in this laptop of mine that I'm currently using..

So, I'm going to post some pictures tha...