July 2009
16 posts
Finishing up!
Sorry there haven’t been posts lately, school has been really busy! We’ve been wrapping up-it’s been amazing, usually we cover about 5 units a semester and in 7 short weeks we’ve covered 10 units!! Wow! We have today off to review and then tomorrow is our final exam, so keep fingers crossed!
June 2009
94 posts
Day 40- off to the villages!
Today Misheala stayed home sick with a little bit of a tummyache, so I had to venture into the big world by myself…
Got to school and took a test that was WAY hard!!! It was really tragic, but one of those things that happens sometimes when you’re learning a foreign language, I guess.
Today we were scheduled to go into the north and go to a museum and wedding, but at lunch everyone...
Day 38- Where are all the ladies at?
School today was pretty school-ish…I.e., we learned (more!) new vocabulary words and had another grammer lesson- nothing out of the ordinary, although I actually (think) that I understood today’s lesson which is a huge shock for me!! We then went to lunch (and grabbed some ice cream, yum!) and left early to…
Meet the former secretary of Culture, at The Higher Council for...
Day 36- Everyone has a daddy!
So as we were driving to school today half of the bus happened to look out the window when the man selling the papers wandered through the parked cars. The back page was plastered with ads for fathers’ day. A collective gasp escaped the van…. It’s father’s day…. Then the blissful realization…. We hadn’t missed it, it wasn’t even fathers’ day in the US yet!!! It was, however, Father’s Day in...
Day 31-Oh bureaucracy how I feared I would miss...
So today on our way to school we made a few unexpected turns. Now this wasn’t too too surprising knowing our bus drivers penchant for picking up one or two extra people on our way out to Zarqa. As it turned out it wasn’t a pick up…. It was a drop off. All nine of us aided by our bus driver went into the municipal police station this morning around eight am in order to renew our visas that were...
Day 30- More Pictures!!
Instead of a post today we put up more pictures (as you can see)—specifically now there’s pictures from Misheala too!! Yaaay! They’re pictures still from this past weekend.
