Week 8

October 13th 2008

Well nothing of much interest happened today. I had to give a presentation about a story I read for my Women writers course, but other than that there is nothing all that great about my day. I went to the gym and worked my ass off. Seriously I feel like it is falling off. The computer at my house is not working because of the internet so my blog will probably suffer since I am paying to get on here and update this damn thing. Okay that is all for the 13th.

October 14th 2008

Well today seemed to be the day for me to lose my sanity in Jordan. I went to the teacher to talk to her about how she thinks I am doing in Arabic class. Because well frankly it is a guessing game in this country. Anyways, all though she tells me I am doing good I just feel so stupid and frustrated at times that I ended basically crying the entire time I was talking to her. She is such a sweetheart. I felt so bad for crying like that...and she just kept telling me that we were like sisters and sisters cry to each other. She really is an angel. She made me feel better. Even though I still get frustrated at times with this damn language...I knew it was going to be hard...but grr!
Anyways other than that nothing else happened on Tuesday!

October 15th 2008

Well nothing new except that we had a GLBT talk. And a guy came in to talk to us about what it is like to be out in Jordan. He owns one of my favorite cafes. Books at Cafe. It is such a cool place. Man I miss my gays. Anyways other than this nothing of much import happened. I found out today that I am goin cliff diving on Saturday. That should be fun! EK!

October 16th 2008

Well I went out with a few friends tonight. We basically just sat around though. Rovers was closed down because of toilet problems..eww...and so we just went to walkalat street and smoked some shisha. Anyways that is about all. Nothing too great.

October 17th 2008

Okay so a run down of this day...I made fried green tomatoes...yep that was it! Nothing else have I done today. Since I am going cliff diving tomorrow I just haven't done much except study. Anyways that is all for now I am out. I will have more to write for tomorrow I am sure!

October 18th 2008

OMG!!!! That was absolutely incredible. I went to Wadi Hasa which aka is one of the most beautiful places you could ever go to. So the trip started out with a 3 hour bus ride to this wadi. Once we got off the bus within three minutes of being on the trail you had to jump on to the first natural made water slide. You instantly slide into water way over your head and then you swim for a bit to a place where you have to jump off of a 30 feet rock to get to the next level of the Wadi. After that there is about five minutes of a dry hike before you are back in the water again. I swear some places looked like the most romantic thing in the world with all the rock forms over head and other places looked like you were going to get ate by a giant snake in the water as you are swimming or wading through cat tails. There were tunnels we had to swimming through and rocks we had to jump between and fall into the water below. IT was incredible. There was about 12 waterfalls total in the short place we did to get to the hot springs...and then we just relaxed there for a while. All and all the trip was great. I wish I could have had a camera for all of this, but it would have ruined my camera. We spent about 90% of the time in water. After all this was over though we got right back on the bus for another three hours home.

October 19th 2008

Nothing to report I had my speaking exam today. And I was so sore from the trip I took. Seriously though I am covered in bruises and my butt is black from a particularly nasty fall I had yesterday. Why don't I have any grace????