Sunday Funday

Hello all,

So not much has happened here. Its a pretty boring life usually. I am enjoying an apartment to myself (although there are some bugs that I share it with, but for the most part they are friendly so no big deal, and I also share my windows with birds, but again no big deal). I don't know if or when we will be getting roommates. It is against university rules to allow foreign and Jordanian students to live together (we are a bad influence on them). If I don't get a roommate, I am gonna rearrange my room again and make myself a wonderful huge bed!

For the most part, I have just been going to class and studying and working. I go to the gym a lot with the girls (the boys go to a different gym). The woman at the front desk is really nice and we have been getting to know her. I also know one of the guys who works there now because he was a language partner last semester.

I have a really hard project for my Arab media class - I have to research Syrian news agencies and discuss their biases, problems, history, all sorts of stuff for a 15 minute presentation!!!! That is HARD. I have to do 4 or 5 minute recordings for my fos-ha class a lot for homework, but 15 minutes!!!!!!!! All in Arabic?!!!! I am terrified. I dont even know how to start researching this. But it seems like everyone else is worried too so I feel a little better that I'm not blatantly the worst in the class. Its just going to be a lot of work. I hope I can do it. (Pray for me to the g-ds of studying that I can study my ass off and learn all this)

Today will be my first real Archaeology of Jordan class. We were supposed to have one last week but she didn't show, and the next day we were supposed to just meet her and see where her office was, but it turned into an hour conversation. She is really nice and I am really excited for the class, but I felt sooo bad because we were pulled out of amiyya class to meet her, and then she took us to her office, and I thought it would be only a minute or two to see where it was and then go back to class (where I had left all my stuff including my phone). She wanted to talk, however, and we talked for an hour. I was supposed to meet my language partner and accidentally stood her up! I felt soooo bad, and worst of all, my phone was with my stuff at the language center, so she called me 3 times but I never answered. Then right after that I had my Arab Media class, and it was a while before I could call her! I apologized a lot tho, and I felt sooo bad and she forgave me. We are meeting up today.

My Archaeology of Jordan class seems really exciting. We will be taking weekend trips to archaeological sites, and maybe even get to see a dig in progress. Also, its in English, so I am happy about that, and the professor seems awesome. She lives in DC and knows Gayron and Lindsay (students from spring and summer that I know) and just seems really nice and cool and laid back. She said if we spend a lot of our weekend time on trips, we may cancel class during the week so we can have some free time.

Anyways, that is pretty much the jist of my life. I go to school, I meet with my language partner (usually), I go home to study, go to the gym....boring mundane life stuff. This weekend I think is our first rihla or trip. It is just a short trip to the north to see Um Qais, Ajloun castle, and Jerash, but it is fun.

More stories to come!!!

Oh, if anyone knows of a job I could do from around xmas until Jan 20th, (anywhere!) that would be awesome. I have been trying to find an Au Pair job, but no one has contacted me yet...I can do something in the US or somewhere else too if I can find a place to live...