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February 14, 2005

Filling My Schedule

In the last couple of days, I have been figuring out my normal schedule. Unlike you kids at Brandeis, I haven't even started my regular classes yet. Yesterday I registered for Prospects for Democracy in the Arab World and International Relations and Diplomacy in the Middle East. I also will have Modern Standard Arabic starting the 23rd of February. For now I am just taking Colloquial Arabic and the lectures given at AMIDEAST.

I also got information on a Photography class offered by a program called Wild Jordan and a Biblical Arabic class offered by a church here. Unfortunately I have class during the Biblical Arabic class so I cannot take it and the Photography class costs 75JD so I haven't decided on that one yet. I would love to join a club here but they don't have many because everyone lives at home and leaves the university at 5pm. I need some extracurriculars though to keep me busy. I have slept in more days here already that I normally do in an entire semester at Brandeis. I just don't know how much of this I can take.

On a positive note, my friends and I went to a restaurant called Labani Snack yesterday and had the most amazing fruit smoothies I have ever tasted. It is right behind AMIDEAST so this may become a dangerous habit but it is worth it if it keeps me sane.

My host sister also left yesterday to visit her Aunt for a few days so that means that I have a room to myself. It is nice because with this darn cold (did I tell you I was sick?) I blow my nose every 1/2 hour. I haven't even heard a local blow their nose so there is probably some cultural rule against it that I am breaking. Anyways, at least she gets to sleep in peace.

Oh, and speaking of peace. Yesterday we had a breifing by the Embassy on security matters. They told us that there is almost no chance of our purses being stolen and crime almost never happens but we do need to watch out for assasination attempts. He told us to vary our routine and never leave the house in the same pattern. Too bad he hasn't seen my house. If you go left, you climb a huge hill. If you go straight, you fall into a construction hole. And if you go right, you can catch a taxi. So really, I have one option so I am easy to assinate.

He then continued to explain that we should always sit behind the driver in a cab so that he can't pull a weapon on us. But that may not work, because most of the time the left hand passenger door doesn't work in taxis. So I will probably die there too. And calling a taxi is the safest except that then you become predictable so you die anyways.

I swear, this is the only study abroad program that can boast of teaching it's students how to break a cabby's wrist. Ok, so they didn't actually teach us but they did suggest it as an option if we are in danger.

Today's lecture is on Current Affairs in Jordan so now I need to brush up on my knowledge of what is going on. Better read the Jordan Times.

Posted by rcollins at February 14, 2005 6:23 AM

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Comments

So now that you have really scared your mother with your talk of assassins you can find a class on self defense instead of eating friut smoothies. I know it is the safest middle east country but...

Posted by: Barbara at February 14, 2005 8:46 AM

Darn, I need to know some people, they can assinate you and I can be an only child, yay, that would rock, hehe just kidding ;)

Posted by: Sean at February 14, 2005 10:43 AM

Don't feel too alone: over here in South Africa, I'm not exactly in the safe haven of the world, either. We live on campus and still aren't advised to leave our rooms alone after dark, and getting into a taxi alone is somewhat prohibited by our professors. Why, just last week one of the porters in our dorm was stabbed by a someone who was upset about not being let in! And an international student from Kenya was killed for some undisclosed reason, which has made the rest of us feel not-so-incredibly safe.

Learning self defense all of a sudden seems to be underrated in the United States...

Posted by: Rebecca G at February 15, 2005 3:13 AM