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February 1, 2005

And I have arrived!

I have been in Amman for about a day and a half and am doing well. I had a lovely flight out of Boston and tried to sleep most of the way to Paris but didn't really succeed. In Paris I had my fist adventure trying to find my connecting flight. It is a good thing that I had a long layover because I had to take two different busses and no one knew which busses I was talking about. And we taxied twice around the part of the airport that collapsed. That was a lot of fun.

In Paris I met Emma (another girl in my program) and we got to chat for a few minutes about how crazy this all was. We then got on the plane and had a great 5 hours waiting very excitedly. The coolest part of the trip was wakeing up on the second part of the flight and seeing the Swiss Alps out the window. It was incredibly beautiful and it made my day.

When we arrived in Amman, we stood around in the airport for about an hour as we tried to decide what we were supposed to do. We kept looking for a sign that said CIEE and even attempted to ask someone where we might find our program director but of course the man we asked didn't speak english. We finally made it to baggage only to find that Emma's luggage was still in Paris so we had to fill out claim forms and negotiate with the Arabic-only speaking baggage office. We then went through customs (they didn't even look at us!) and met Sally our resident director on the other side. She took us to the hotel where we dropped our luggage off and went straight to dinner.

Dinner was at a traditional arab restaurant and served chicken and lamb kabob along with numerous apatizers and fruit for desert. It was acceptable after all the airplane food but I am sill a bit wary about eating.

Yesterday and today we are doing orientation and this afternoon I get to learn about my homestay. Yup, that's right, I got a homestay! I am really excited but also very nervous because they keep warning us that this is going to be hard to adjust to. Hopefully everything will be fine. . . .

I now have a cellphone so if you feel like calling me, just drop me an e-mail and I will send you my number. It is a bit spendy to speak to me but it is worth it. ;)

Posted by rcollins at February 1, 2005 4:46 AM

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