Due to the fact that I'm exhausted this update will be rather short.
Today most everyone else from the program was getting in throughout the day. Our group of 20 or so from this morning has now at least quadrupled. Some of us went to explore Rainbow Street. Our taxi on the way over there played the Ghostbuster's theme song just for us. We were all highly amused. We finally reached Rainbow Street after a very crazy taxi ride (reminds me of Mongolia) and then we got out next to a cafe. Rainbow Street is supposedly the hip place for young people. I'm not so sure we found the most "hip" places, but we did find an excellent little restaurant for lunch. It was called friends@cafe and I got a yummy lemon and mint drink as well as a margherita pizza. Not only that, but our group began the inevitable hookah smoking. Our flavour? Well, according to the menu, water milon with mint. We should have followed that up by ordering the creaser salad. You know, just to order all the typos. Haha. Also, the restaurant went from traditional Middle Eastern music to LMFAO's I'm Sexy and I Know It. So, the main things I learned today? Mint is super popular over here, Jordanians have excellent taste in music, and the cars on the streets of Amman stop for no man - and especially no woman.
The evening was a delicious dinner at our hotel and then I filled up my time with reviewing my Arabic. I've got a long ways to go, but I'm excited to get back into the swing of things. Arabic is just the coolest, and I'm clearly the nerdiest.
Cheers from Amman!
Today most everyone else from the program was getting in throughout the day. Our group of 20 or so from this morning has now at least quadrupled. Some of us went to explore Rainbow Street. Our taxi on the way over there played the Ghostbuster's theme song just for us. We were all highly amused. We finally reached Rainbow Street after a very crazy taxi ride (reminds me of Mongolia) and then we got out next to a cafe. Rainbow Street is supposedly the hip place for young people. I'm not so sure we found the most "hip" places, but we did find an excellent little restaurant for lunch. It was called friends@cafe and I got a yummy lemon and mint drink as well as a margherita pizza. Not only that, but our group began the inevitable hookah smoking. Our flavour? Well, according to the menu, water milon with mint. We should have followed that up by ordering the creaser salad. You know, just to order all the typos. Haha. Also, the restaurant went from traditional Middle Eastern music to LMFAO's I'm Sexy and I Know It. So, the main things I learned today? Mint is super popular over here, Jordanians have excellent taste in music, and the cars on the streets of Amman stop for no man - and especially no woman.
The evening was a delicious dinner at our hotel and then I filled up my time with reviewing my Arabic. I've got a long ways to go, but I'm excited to get back into the swing of things. Arabic is just the coolest, and I'm clearly the nerdiest.
Cheers from Amman!
batiq wa na'ana! best flavor ever. i worked off of rainbow street for a while.
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