Marriott Amman

... by to say hi. I probably chilled there for about an hour and then hiked my falafel ass home. A nice thing about the walk home...even though I have to walk on the side of a busy road past dozens of shababing construction workers, inhaling exhaust and actively feeling my face break out...is that there are a ton of women cops here. I mean they are directing traffic so I am not claiming to know anything about the gender breakdown of the shorta hierarchy, but ...

... point but ended up sort of tripping when I got near the car..."no one saw that" (yes they did)). Minus the fact that I was probably behaving about 50/50 foolish/passed out I managed to successfully eat something AND brush my teeth (it's the little things) before conking out like a rock. <br><br>Friday: <br>The Saturday story doesn't end there of course because I woke up hanging a bit and still had to get up and go with Jess and meet Yoichi at the Friday flea market. Sure I ...

... sucking on Marlboros in the dining and living room after dinner. (3) Arabic or Turkish Coffee is consistently an after dinner treat here which is odd to me but helps me hang with the best of them since everyone stays up so late munching on goodies. <br><br>---<br><br>Monday:<br><br>Inste ad of going to the office I went to the Jordan Valley Authority building for a presentation by my boss. I don&#8217;t know if this the Jordanian way or just ...

... much of the service work that includes cleaning buildings like gyms, as well as people's personal homes, are women from the Philippines, and (3) although it was not dark enough to confuse a white string for a black string by the time we left it was clear to me that it was time to break fast because a platter of dates met us on the way out and people were already gorging themselves at the cafe. <br><br>After the gym we headed to get food at a well-known ...

... if they could get married somewhere else, like in the states, but still live in Jordan and have the marriage be approved. He said no, that he would lose his citizenship and therefore would be a citizen of no country! <br><br> <br><br>And it&#8217;s not just the government that doesn&#8217;t approve of it, but many families. The younger generation is definitely more open and doesn&#8217;t care, but their parents and grandparents have a lot of influence over their lives ...

... stores had and sort of target audience in mind. And as Henry later pointed out, there really weren't very many women around at all (though more than in Nepal). <br><br>Along the Balad there was one spot with a big digital scale and height reader. For half a dinar you could weigh yourself. With my jeans and t-shirt on I was 99.2 Kg, or 218.7 pounds. I'm definitely up from the end of the Annapurna Circuit, but down from when I left the States, especially since the jeans ...

... at our destination. He spoke of his country with pride and how he wanted the world to know what a kind and beautiful place Jordan was. He had no agenda. He was just terribly kind, to the point where when I enquired about his two HUGE water melons which were keeping me company in the back seat, he insisted that we take one. The fact that they were approximately 0.5m x 0.3m in volume, meant the gesture could not be received without serious injury being sustained, so we reluctantly and ...