Amman Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Greetings from Amman, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Our Middle East Adventure continues. This morning I spent many hours uploading my Nepal pictures to the blog. They are not all yet weaved into entries, but you really should check them out. I repeat NEPAL PHOTOS ARE UP! Anyway, we set off for Amman with our first stop being th...

This past weekend has been full of events, being a taxi, coffee, and some amazing artists from around the EMAC region!  On Wednesday, I picked up my coach, Chris F. from Doha, Qatar.  He stayed with me for the 5 days that the event was happening.  He is from Melbourne, Australia and is a drama teacher along with his wife at ACS-Doha.  This festi...

Our last night in Jordan, and after a few weeks travelling, we decided to splurge and stay in a 5 star luxury hotel. We caught our early bus from Aqaba for the 4 hour trip and arrived by lunch time. Going through security at the entrance of the driveway at the hotel, with bomb sweepers going under the car to check for bombs.We indulged in a stan...

Happy Thursday! I have now completed Week #28 of school and the kids have figured out that we only have about 54 days left. Kinda scarey when I consider how much I still need to teach! Yikes. The schedule has changed again! Next week is the Prophet's Birthday. Some calendar's say it is on Wednesday(our school calendar) and some say it's on Thurs...

You got it! At about 6:00am this morning, I got an SMS text message saying that school would not to open today!!! I went to bed last night around 9ish and it was not even raining at that time so I thought my bet was safe. Guess not! I looked out the window to see a lot of white snow and fog. Check out the pictures if you don't believe me! It is ...

Marhaba! Today was absolutely amazing!!! I started off waking up at 5:30 AM because I went to bed so early, then had breakfast at the hotel (hummus, lebneh, fool, orange juice), then loaded a bus at 8:30 to start the day. We first went to a historic restaurant in Amman that had an amazing view. They had a bunch of different desserts for us along...

I only stopped in Amman for the night before moving on to Jerusalem - but I must say that it didn't leave that good an impression. Harsh but true unfortunately.

Well, I made it through the day! My 8th grade History class/Advisory brought in Brownies and sang to me so that was really sweet of them. They really are a good group of kids! I wasn't expecting many of them as Thursday was going to be another holiday leading into a long weekend but EVERY kid was there in the Middle School-- all 108 of them!! I ...

These are my kids! We just had yearbook pictures taken and there is also a class photo taken. No, I had absolutely NOTHING to do with any of this! There is a class that does this and the book is produced locally. I am still taking pictures at school like crazy but 9 years of habit are a little hard to break! The other pictures are from last week...

So it turns out that we really did rent a car, my two friends and I. Christopher is a construction worker from England and his girlfriend Claudia is from Italy, but is currently studying international relations in England. They are an interesting pair in limited doses, but their incessant bickering can try even a patient soul, which I have never...