Not so funny. But you get the idea. However, it's interesting because, with recent drama in Israel ( here) and with the majority of Jordanians being of Palestinian lineage, many of them still having refugee relatives, the situation here has been a little tense. Now, it's still really safe, but today there were demonstrations planned for all over the city against the situation in Jerusalem. We were advised after call to pray at noon until a little after to avoid the streets.
However, all was fine, and a friend and I went out for local ice cream today to sit and catch up. She had Nutella ice cream, while I had chocolate cake. It was glorious. Especially with the beautifully sunny high 70s weather. I'm sooooooooo not jealous of Chicago weather right now. But it rained for the first time since I've been here two days ago. It was so fun, and such a novelty!
Class are fine... Kinda easy, yet time consuming, which is frustrating. However, as I realized with my full 15 minute conversation with my taxi driver today, I'm definitely improving in my speaking. Now, I just need to only speak Arabic with my host family. With my host mother being an Arabic as a Second Language teacher, it's always SO tempting to just slip into English. But I'm trying to get better!
In other news, in just over a month, I should (if NU gets its finances together) be heading over to Cairo for the International Model Arab League conference, which should be so exciting! A small group of NU students are flying from all over (Chicago, London, Morocco) to compete, and I can't wait!
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