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March 14, 2005
Quick! The advisors are coming!
This week a group of about 20 study abroad advisors are coming to visit my program and evaluate it for their home institutions. Basically, we are now required to dress nicely for our meetings and participate in class. We have to go to all these receptions and act like we are respectable. It's not really that bad, but it is annoying because they expect us to impress these people.
I think what is hardest for me is that I at the point where I just don't care about being happy in Jordan. Right this moment, I just want to make it through.
This weekend, my friends and I are going to the Dead Sea with the language center. Hopefully this will be fun and worth riding a smelly bus with all the language students. I have noticed that the CIEE students are anywhere from 5-15 years younger than the average language student so that could be interesting. Even our teachers refer to us as "shabab" or "youth" because we kind of stick out. One of the guys in my class is 40 years old! That's twice my age! So yeah, it's an interesting group.
On another note, it has been incredibly cold here lately. I am wearing a skirt today because of this lovely advisor reception tonight and I am very very cold. It was actually warmer in Boston last night than it was here. This 'desert' thing is quite misleading. I am sure it will be unbearably hot soon enough, however.
Posted by rcollins at March 14, 2005 6:43 AM
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Hang in there. You're approaching the middle of your adventure, which as we all know from reading our adventure stories, is always the toughest and most despairing. Pretty soon you'll have that one breakthrough, though, and everything will come to a rushing climax, and then the sweet denouement... :)
uh, yeah, so seriously, think about and enjoy life as it happens. Don't rush through the awful parts of the day just to get to the good parts. Enjoy your chicken and rice... and if you don't enjoy your chicken and rice, then try adding your own special spice! Buy a flower and pin it to your clothes, or wear it in your hair :) Think about the goat you saw on the street, how it made you smile; crystallize that memory, save it and enjoy it.
But you know all these already, I just enjoy reminding you. Plenty of things like these I ought to practice on a regular basis too.
Posted by: Karl at March 14, 2005 10:02 PM