Sheraton Amman Al Nabil Hotel And Towers

... 1 Copperfield

-Dave

Bonus: I'd forgotten one book review in my earlier post.
Fever Pitch
Nick Horby
bought in Siena
given to Francesco in Bologna

Fever Pitch is even more significant to this blog than The Polysyllabic Spree in that the latter provided the structure of one posting while the former provided the spirit for all of them. The work that deservedly launched Horby's career, it chronicles his 25-year ...

Thursday:

I froze at work because the a/c is on the frozen peas setting. Then I headed to Fitness First with Devan and followed my workout/spa routine that I love so much. Afterwords we decided to go to Hashem's for falafel, hummus, fries, and bread. We got their after if-tar so we had the place to ourselves. A trip to Hashem is of course never complete without a trip to Hamudeh's for the most famous bootleg movies in Jordan. I said I wasn't going to ...

... s new tenant whose name now escapes me…Sophia? Joanna? Gosh I’m bad. I think it was actually Sonja. She was cool beans though. She is here working for UNIFEM through her university in Switzerland. The movie was horrible so the fact that I can’t remember the name doesn’t bother me one bit. It was with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin, and Anthony Hopkins. Avoid it at all costs. Also avoid the grocery store we ventured to ...

... will now be consistently stalking my aunt's fig tree when I get home to the states.

Dinner consisted of shwarma with Ali, Casey, and Tony and then I ended up being picked by a strange man I didn't know to hang out with people I didn't know. Haha. That was just to see if you are still paying attention...no, actually that happened minus the "strange" part. My friend from Kzoo spent last summer here and she hooked me up with a group of her friends in Amman and ...

... equals crazy busy because Thursday night is their Friday night here. Friday and Saturday are the weekend and Sunday is the Monday.

As you can see my anxiety is fading a bit (although ebbing and flowing is probably more accurate). It was really great to be able to tag along to all these places and an added bonus that some of it was paid for. I guess they made more plans for tomorrow and Saturday before I have to start heading in to FoEME on Sunday. Can’t wait!

... including who they marry. The interesting thing though is that I have another friend, a Christian woman, who is going to marry a Muslim guy. This is allowed, but the other way around is not.



As you can see then, religion tends to matter more here than it would otherwise if the concept of marriage didn’t exist. I’m just now coming to the realization that so many Christians here brand themselves with the cross. The guys and girls will have ...

... a 10 minute walk away...

It was more like a 35-45 minute walk, which seriously confused us when we were looking for places on the hand drawn map we thought we should have reached but didn't reach. The walk involved going along the Balad where we had been the night before, only this time all the stores were closed. The best part was when we passed the scale stop from the night before. Instead of the tall special digital scale there was just a guy with a white ...

... about 60 points behind so there is hope!  I tell my 8th graders  that I get to go anyway so I'll be ready to go with whatever grade wins. :-) I am getting ready to pack up but still don't want to get to into yet as I know myself to well-I'll be packed in a day or 2 at the most.  I have started organizing and sorting stuff out-some has already found new homes with the Greer's and with Maha.  Some down and lots more to go!

... in the sea, until Tak dived for the ball and forgot to close his eyes, becoming subsequently blinded by the incredibly salty salt water! A wry smile came over my face. It had been such a fun and amazing day! WOW! We luckily received another hitchhike back to Amman with a Jordanian who had lived in France for 10 years a while ago, and wanted to practice his French. "Can you speak French?" he asked Tak. "Oui!" "Jump in then!" On the way back I said to Tak, "If Jesus performed his ...

... able to get my ticket to Syria from there and get my washing down my trousers are starting to get pretty dirty. Overall I ended on a high after having a bit of a **** start to the day, hopefully tomorrow will look up as I am off to the old roman city of Jeressh meant to be awesome and then chill out after. I have managed to put alot more photos on my blog for the past few days so check them out when you can there are some great ones.