2 Weeks in Amman, with a couple days to the South, and headed West soon!

So it has been almost two weeks now since I arrived in Amman. Things are swell, Ramadan is a blessing and a major challenge at the same time. Its a major blessing because its so fun and joyous to accept peoples invites and have iftar dinner with them. I have had iftar at an Iraqi man's home, tonight at a Palestinian friend of mine's and the most exclusive one had to be the iftar dinner with Iraqi and Palestinian Refugee's hosted by the NGO Questscope. Here's a picture with some of the Iraqi Kids, They were real cool and down to earth:


So a quick update on my social life... I got rid of those "friends" i talked about in the last post. Those guys were a bunch of street kids and they helped me in the beginning and were fun to chill with, but I had a bad feeling and felt very suspicious of them, and all it took was one of them to cross me, rip me off 20 JD, about 25 Dollars, and I cut them off completely. They were calling me night and day to hang out, and I just wasn't going to have it. I didn't even try to get my money back, because I look at it like this: For $25 I got rid of those punk kids for the rest of my life. If I chased them for the money, I'd be back in that circle.

So I took a trip to one of the 7 new wonder's of the world: Petra! The Whole city is carved by Calcareous Rock, and its at least 2 thousand years old, but the exact age of the city is undetermined. Now it is run by the Bedouins. They guide the tourists and tame the camels, horses and donkeys for us to ride. They are a funny, english-speaking, sometimes arrogant, but always content bunch. I asked on of them "How do you know english so well?" He replied, "Life is school my friend". He later invited me to come stay with him and the Bedouins for a night in the future! I might, I might not take him up on that, we'll see... Check the pics:

Later that night we went further south to Al-Aqaba and swam in the Red Sea at night time. The Water was beautiful. Not cold, not warm either, but nice enough to swim.

Finally, For Eid, we get a couple days off from school. I'm going to Palestine!! No joke. I got a friend from the school here, his family lives out there, actually on the Israeli side, pretty close to Masjid Al Quds. He told me his family loves guests and would be happy to host me on Eid. So that'll be entertaining inshallah. We are going to check out parts of the West Bank, The Holy Mosque, the Coast close to Gaza, and more.... I don't know what to expect. I'll let you know when I know. But I am excited!

Peace, hope the updates are cooooool....