People just don't understand what vegetarianism means. Okay so I don't eat mean, but the rice under the meat is fine, right? Sure it's made with chicken stock and soaked in meat juices, but its not meat so you can eat that, right?
No? Why? You are difficult!
That is pretty much how it goes. I have come to a point where I haven't eaten meat in so long (about 13 years) that I can no longer process the enzymes in meat, or something along those lines- all I know is I get violently sick if I eat meat. That is how I explain it to the Jordanians, that I would love to try the food they make me but I will be very sick if I do. They are a polite people and would feel awful if they thought they had made me sick, so they back off. I still offend them for not trying their food, though, and that makes me sad.
Yesterday was cooking class instead of real class. We bought the food, went to my friend Jenny Sue's Apartment with our teachers, and cooked Maqlube (chicken with rice and veggies- potatoes and eggplant and cauliflower) Its relatively similar to every other Jordanian dish, but whatever. It was fun to have a different type of class, but when it came time to eat, my teacher was sad that I didn't try any of the Maqlube and stuck to the salad and cucumber yoghurt we had also made. She couldn't really understand why I didn't eat it, and was disappointed that I hadn't told her before she put the rice in the chicken pot that I wouldn't eat it (I didn't tell her because she had already mixed in chicken stock to the rice, so I wouldn't eat it anyways) It was okay though, because we had lots of salad and yoghurt, and a different class (all 3 classes were cooking and we all live in the same building) had made a vegetarian dish, so I had some of their vegetarian rice with the yoghurt and salad and it was quite good.
It did kinda bother me a little bit that my teacher told us the day before we would be cooking in one of the girls' apartments:
1)ask us?
2)why not one of the boys' apartments? I don't cook, but once one of the boys in my class made us a home made pie! kinda sexist, but "Welcome in Jordan!"
On a different not, I was pretty sick this week which sucks because I am going to Aqaba tomorrow!!!!!!! It was supposed to be a whole group thing and be super fun, but all the boys are being stupid and are too tired to come so its just the girls, but it will still be super fun!!!!! I love love love Aqaba! Best place in Jordan!!!
Yesterday, my friend Jenny Sue and I decided to get materials to make muffins with. We made coffee cinnamon muffins, and will be creating different batches in the weeks to come. we both love making muffins for breakfasts, so it will be our Saturday ritual I think. Next week we will be making blueberry muffins (from a box, but still delicious!) Yay I love muffins!!!!
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