If anyone has been watching the news lately they might have noted that people have been attacking the pope's anti islamic statment. Being surrounded by muslims that have also held up the cry... but unfortunately most everyone seems to have overlooked two important facts, number one: the pope didn't say anything, but rather quoted a Byzantine ( Read more... )

I am sitting in the UJ (university of Jordan) computer lab surrounded by women who are either veiled completely, or just have their hair covered. Its an interesting experience - especially since i can't understand a single word they are saying (probably a lot of slang). The men here put far too much gel in their hair, and their jeans are a just a ( Read more... )

We experienced our first security lockdown yesterday ( Read more... )

Greetings to all ( Read more... )

Well, I have started speaking english again. I am sitting in the lobby of the Al Manar hotel in Amman with three other CIEE students. We are just chilling, chatting, across the way a group of Jordanian women yell noisely into cell phones. This morning I awoke to the sounds of a verbal conflict inside of a family, naturally, I didn't understand any ( Read more... )

I have arrived, made several friends, and fixed a couple of problems ( Read more... )

Well, I am in phoenix now, using the public wi-fi, I have a nice long flight to England and than a five hour one from London to Amman ( Read more... )

I am happy to annouce that I have an eight hour layover in Phoenix, and a ten hour layover in London to look forward to on tuesday.

I will be incredibly stinky when I arrive in Amman.

Maybe I will have time to get out of Heathrow and hang out in London, but probably not with security the way it is currently.

three days...

I spoke Arabic with two very nice Syrian men today, and tomorrow we are having Coffee and talking politics, culture and all the other stuff possible with people from different cultures and varying abilities at foreign languages.

Should be interesting.

A little over a week until I leave.

Odd.

There are far too many idiotic blogs out there, on both sides of the political spectrum. I imagine is has something to do with the lack of personal contacts most Americans feel, instead of getting actively involved in politics or talking to the candidates we instead just put out uncited (and usually wrong) facts ( Read more... )