1) i found out i’ll be going to a WEDDING on saturday!! that means i need to go shopping, as i brought nothing even remotely fancy to this country. though my friend megan, who just went to a wedding this weekend, said i should hardly bother; no matter what i do i’ll definitely be shown up by all the jordanian ladiez with all their color and bling.
2) it was mother’s day in jordan. i made my mom a card in arabic, which she loved. she was asleep when i went to school, but in the middle of the day i got a text message from her expressing her gratitude. winning points all over the place!! this also meant GIANT CHOCOLATE CAKE. mohammad went back for 4ths, then made khitam give him a belly rub after he got pains from eating too much. love them.
3) i had the best taxi ride ever on the way home: 2JD exactly, all the windows down, the magic hour splashing sunlight onto the faces of white stone buildings, yo la tengo blasting through my earbuds. #californiasummer (is that how it works, @youngpb??). serious flashback to the best coast, driving gladys around town. also i’m starting to read east of eden, and steinbeck’s descriptions of salinas make me long for golden hills, oak trees, and the smell of the pacific ocean. teensy bit homesick, moomkin?
on saturday i took a solo trip up to jerash (i’m patting myself on the back for using my arabic to navigate the public bus station all on my own). i ended up meeting a nice dutch girl who i spent the day with. she’s been working in bethlehem for the past few months, but has had such an impossible time getting an extended visa that she has to pop on over to jordan every 3 months, then lie her way back into palestine, pretending to be a tourist so she can get another tourist visa. what a process! we had a great time, and exchanged info so that we can meet up when i visit amsterdam this summer (shout out to juliet, can’t wait for eurotrip 2011!). here are some pictures of this ancient city:
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