Century Park Hotel Amman

... knew the password we needed and it was super nice to hear from her about all of her early Dubai adventures. When she described her reaction to seeing human **** in the bottom of a pool that she was doing laps in...yea, I almost died laughing. Her point was well taken though that you would need to remain as calm as possible so as not to disturb or rustle that ****, literally. Lmao.

Wednesday: Arabic class at the FCC. Its definitely helping and I really do ...

... and learning to balance first gear enough to roll forward a few feet and and then reverse back to where the car originally was. After doing this maybe twice, I was too mentally exhausted from my nervousness to continue. Haha. Endurance what? By the time I come back to the states I will be a speed racer though. Watch out Nascar.

Thursday: I went to work. No one else was there except the big boss and the guy who got me the hot milk with sugar. When I ...

... Planet. I can't wait! We have our guide book (no small victory since it took us like 6 malls to find the very last copy at Cosmo Mall), we are taking a car, and our friends of course speak fluent Arabic which is always a plus for traveling. I will return by next Sunday so look for my update on everything I saw and did (and ate since I hear that the food in Syria is da bomb!)

Love you all!

... learned the slang words for hottie (mostly they are food words) and learned to play a card game they call "trix." I actually wasn't bad which I probably owe to my card playing family back home. Overall it was another delicious and successful if-tar. I really love the if-tars, they are like really elaborate spaghetti nights on eleven mile. I think we left around midnight, did a brief tour of the eight circles in Amman, and hit the hay.

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Now: TGIT

... pics) and driven al the way to the dead sea spot. They swam with us for a couple of hours and then drove us back to Amman, feeding us loads of food and generally being very kind - I had to battle to get out the house though just as they were ordering pizza for us! In the eve I went out with Ferdy for a Sheesha as he leaves tomorrow, and it turnes out I do as well. I am off to Israel.

Amman, Jordan stubo

... Tomorrow our plan is to go to the Red Sea. The hostel does tours that cost 15 Dinar and go to the Red Sea, but the public bus is only like 1 JD, so we are opting to save money. Interestingly enough, the hostel will also take you to Damascus (Syria) for 20 JD, and a number of other places. I am hoping that maybe we will also get to go to Petra while we are here. We leave on Wednesday morning, very early for Dubai. The other interesting ...

... met by Madala in his traditional Bedoin robes, ready to take us to his house after we paid the 2 JD park entrance fee. Madala drove us to his house in an old beat up Toyota, stopping at a shop for water along the way and to give us our bag lunches. I thought his insistence on buying more water was a ploy to get us over sharged for water, but actually it was cheaper than in Wadi Musa, and you can never have too much water in the desert. The little store also sold ...

The cheapest one way ticket from Bangkok to Tel Aviv was with Royal Jordanian Airlines. Two flight options were available, one with a five hours layover, and another with 16 hours layover. Intrigued by the idea of seeing Amman, even for only a few hours, I chose the second option. Turns out that when you transit through Amman, even with a short layover, you automatically get to stay in the Golden Tulip hotel near the airport. Although somewhat dilapidated, it was ...

... juifs sefarades. Quelques jordaniens dans le mini-bus rejoignant la capitale ensuite : je réalisai avec stupeur que la langue arabe s'incarnait de la plus belle des manières lors de rixes, d'explications viriles et autres joutes verbales (reflexion faite lors de la première altercation entre arabes de mon voyage, sur le chemin vers Amman). Et puis le coucher du soleil, et puis la mosaïque elle même (putain les mecs ...