Kindi Suites Hotel Amman

... I had met before or I know fairly well to very well so there was still the friends and family feeling in the air. Shawn even let me use his phone to call the states so I got to talk with Rachel and my parents. The food was to die for, from deep fried turkey to roasted duck to shrimp. The only thing missing was gelatenous cranberry sauce from the can (sad). I enjoyed black russians and stuffed my face until I was nearly ill, literally. I was so into stuffing my face with ...

... and the next day Maher and Gupse got the sushi fish for about 30JD. Total price of Y.T.Y. = 80JD, a cost that we split between those who came on Tuesday. Again, cold and rainy so it was our luck that Gupse offered to pick us up and drive us home from Cosmo. On the way she kindly explained, in Japanese, the literal meaning of douche bag while I explained the definition of common usage in the States.

Tuesday:
Cold, rainy, freezing. It rained all night and ...

... significant one is the Temple of Hercules, which was started in the 1st Century AD.

The Citadel affords great views of Amman, a city of 2 million people, with over 50,000 of them (Palestinians) in refugee camps. The majority of the buildings in Amman are built using local white limestone and there are lots of trees, giving Amman its moniker as the green and white city.
Amman was previously called Philadelphia, a name given to it by the ...

... planet can you desperately take the first two people who are interested in sharing your apartment and both of them (remember they don't even really know each other either, at least not for more than two weeks maybe) end up being cool beans and rad feminists? A: Planet Jordan apparently. The universe really does work in mysterious ways.

Thursday: Work. Later Jess and I will be heading to Club 51 for Zoe's birthday, holla!

... list. Anywho, food prep. I wasn't very helpful. I mean I tried but I would say that Gupse and Adib were like the chefs of the party. People trickled in and eventually we totaled 11 people. Eating some frickin delicious shish tawook and grilled burgers. The Arab grill and grill master done good. I definitely thought we would have way more than enough food (everyone chipped in some dinars) but in the end we had like two bell peppers and a few potatoes left over so ...

... de derde cirkel, waar we te laat waren voor de bus, dus toch maar een taxi namen (voor vijf kwartjes..). 's Avonds zouden we met de nieuwe groep Poolse couchsurfers pizza gaan eten, maar die kwamen niet uit Syrie gelift, dus gingen we maar met zn vieren. Megapizza voor 2 euro, die we natuurlijk niet zelf betaalden.. Jezus wat erg! Daarna gingen we naar een hip cafe om pool te spelen, maar "jij mag hierna" betekent hier ongeveer hetzelfde als "two minutes"... Niet dus..

... she says "oh this is the shot," or "the lighting her is amazing," or "I have to get some film of that guy on a donkey", or just the tried and true "Tripod!" Yea. I was annoyed. Even when we drove to some of the nearby villages this routine didn't end. We stopped the car every 1.3 minutes whereupon she would ask him to "back up, back up, back up, ok right here, wait pull forward...ok can you drive forward at a constant speed without using your break so ...

... desert and can go east for the sun or west for the clouds,” he says.
“I like the scale of Amman. Downtown is like a hole, surrounded by steep hills. It feels communal, you can see friends’ homes across the valleys. There are the contour lines of the hills and vertical lines made by the steep roads and footpaths. It feels like snakes and ladders. I feel claustrophic in the West Bank.”
The hilly downtown area called Jebel Amman recalls ...

... this stuff all over our bodies (ended up looking like a minstrel), baked in the sun for about 10 minutes and then it was up to the showers to get this stuff off. Afterwards your skin is so nice and smooth. The Dead Sea mud is very very good for you and has healing properties especially for skin. Some European doctors send patients here to get healed, so it must have some sort of healing properties.

The bus was beckoning and so was my pillow, so it was ...

FIVE HOURS WEST TO EAST OF THE MIDDLE

After the smoothest landing I have ever experienced, we arrived in Amman the next morning. The city is quiet and civilized, compared to India, and we relished the meter in the taxi and the convenient airport shuttle bus. No matter we were ripped off by our taxi driver, who drove us around in circles as the meter ticked over, we were just hanging to find our beds. We checked in to Abassi Palace ...