Made it to Amman safely. Thanks for your prayers. Joe and Jill, two other Ags who are here with us picked up Jordan and I from the airport. I got a local phone so I could call people locally which was pretty cheap. Everything is pretty cheap here really. Its actually a pretty nice city (passed a Porsche dealership on the way in). When they picked us up we took a taxi to a city circle where we were supposed to meet Heather who had arrived earlier and was staying with family. We got to the rendezvous spot before they did, so there we were on the sidewalk in front of a tiny local felafel joint with all our luggage. We looked like we had accidentally gotten on the wrong plane in Newark and had somehow wound up here on their busy street.
Our landlord Enrique is a pretty shady guy whom I have yet to meet despite being at his house last night. Our apartment was supposed to be ready last night but instead wont be ready till Tuesday so instead we stayed in Jordan's apartment last night. We're going to Aqaba on Sunday through Tuesday though. Enrique's family however is very nice. When we were there, his brother Wassim, who was raised in Brooklyn and now attends Arizona State was really cool. He was telling us about different idiosynracies of Jordanian people. We were telling him how our Arabic wasn't getting us very far because the form we learned is Fus'ha (the formal written form) and he assured us that we would pick it up in no time. After teaching us some phrases for future use in the taxi (also after his mother had made us shai (tea) and we had smoked some hookah) he dropped us off back at Jordan's and gave me his number and said that if we ever needed anything to give him a call, which I'm sure I will. The following are pictures from Jordan's terrace.
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