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I am sorry that I have not kept yall updated in a while. Getting internet for more than a few minutes has been a challenge but right now it is a nice reprieve from the extensive traveling I have been doing. Lets see where to start. Last...Monday, yes I think it was Monday there was a shooting at the University of Jordan between two bedoiun tribes, Al Anwans, (the agressors or agressives) and the Bini Shaher (Sons of the Rock) best match up ever. Anyway the details have not exactly been released even by my professor Dr Najah who is a meber of the Anwan tribe but this is what I heard, besides shots from my class room that I thought were fireworks. Apparently there was a dispute about territory, ie two females claimed a spot ... read more

Ok so apparently I say Al Jamiya al Urdania in a completely different way than people who speak arabic do because it has only about at 30% success rate compared to if I just say University of Jordan although al bawayya Al Reyees tends to work a lot better than main gate. So typically I leave my apartment at 7:15 although it only take about 15 tops to get to school to be there for my 8:00 am private secession that I have either with Eustatha Muna or Eustatha Rabia. Then I have 3 hours of Fus ha or standard arabic followed on mondays by a 2 hour listening section, which I can assure you is a prefect replica of what hell is going to be like, one hour for lunch if it is monday which ... read more

Today marks my first full day in Jordan, 14 months to go. Getting here however was not entirely uneventful. My plane from Philadelphia to New York was suppose to Leave at 6:30 which meant I would arrive at 7:45, plenty of time to catch my 10:00 pm flight to Amman. Well not when you board at 7:30, are told that you are just going to wait on the plane for another hour, take off at 8:30 to arrive at 9:45 in a different terminal than the one my flight to Amman was in. Fortunately through a series of sprinting, then jogging, then speed walking, stopping heaving, then speed walking again I made it just in the nick of time to board my flight to Amman. This is where I met David, a program participant who I ... read more

UGH! I just wrote a post but of course the internet at the Starbucks here in Morelia decided to cut out when I clicked publish. Triste. Bueno it is already difficult to type in English which is create because it means I am thinking is spanish pero it is kind of a bad thing because I really dont speak that much spanish. I guess that means the overall complexity of my thoughts has decreased and to that I say finally! I am so ready for this break. I thought it was kind of hilarious that everyone assumed I was going to to do something. I am doing something, take a proactive role in the metal health of Kris Phelps :P. Well apparently we are off to a new restraunt. Here are my pictures of the garden ... read more

Well not much to say today, literally! Today is silence day where no one talks in honor of the day the day that Meher Baba stopped speaking and remained silent for the last 44 years of his life. The only sounds are cars, birds and the occasional squeak of my hiccups (they have no reverence the silly things). Yesterday I toured the organic farm and women's cooperative store run by an NGO called Prithvi. It was really incredible. They use cow manure for fertilizer and urine for pesticides. They grow medicinal herbs, coconuts, mangos, papayas, dhal, and other Indian staples. It was really nice to walk around the 6 acre farm and learn about all the details of organic farming. At the women’s coop store I bought grocery bags made from old saris for rs 10 ... read more