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May 10, 2005

One Last Trip

Last weekend my friends and I took another trip to Syria. Everything went well and we had an awesome time. We hung around Damascus and took a day trip to Kallat-al-hosen which is a giant crusader castle. On Saturday we went to the Military Museum and the National Museum and saw Syria's take on history. It was quite amusing to see Syria's armory aka military museum. Basically there were just cases and cases of unlabled swords and handguns and cannons. Their take on the '67 war was also interesting although I only understood the basics because everything was in French and Arabic.

Other than that, it has been back to boredom here. I'm still looking for a summer job so if you have any leads please feel free to send them my way. I'm definitely getting ready to go home though because my head is full of all the Arabic it can handle. I feel like it needs to pack down a bit before I try to shove any more information in. However, I still have a month left and then a week of final exams so I have to keep at it for now.

Things at home are still going well. I think I am going to Irbid this weekend with them. Last night I stumped my host brother in Arabic because I am learning passive voice and he got so mad he told me he won't come visit me in America. As you can tell, I'm devastated. ;)

I am going to miss being in Jordan though. I love speaking another language and enjoying the differences in culture. I finally feel like I know my way around so it will be sad to have go. Jordan is just such a silly country that you can't help but love it. Nothing realy makes sense but it seems to work anyways. Every once in a while you just see something that you have to laugh at because it is just odd. Like when we came back from Syria and the cab driver gave us cigaretts from the duty free shop to take through the border. And a giant bag of fresh peas. Because we are American they never care what we bring in so all the drivers want us to carry their stuff through and the border guards never even bat an eyelash.

Oh, and my birthday is coming up! It's the 29th and my host family is insisting I 'make' a party at home. (they haven't quite figured out that it is 'have' a party in english) I'm sure it will be fun though!

Posted by rcollins at May 10, 2005 7:03 AM

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