Classes and Amman

Fun fact: Arabic is really hard to learn in such a short and condensed amount of time.

Our classes are very difficult and it's kind of rough because there are definitely people in our class that are ahead of us in regard to how much we learned. For example, my friend Kevin from Princeton knows a lot more than I do, yet he is in my class. At the same time, I think I'm in better shape than a few other people in my class, so I guess it works out.

This weekend we went to Amman, the capital of Jordan. It is more Westernized than most of Jordan and it shows. It sort of reminded me of a Chinatown of New York only with Middle Eastern people. We saw the Citadel which were some ancient ruins and whatnot. Saw a mosque or two as well. I finally bought my kuffiyeh which I'm pretty happy about, especially because I lied and haggled in Arabic and got it for a dinar ($1.4) less than what it was originally. Noice.

We also went out and experienced the Amman nightlife, but if you want to hear those stories, you're going to have to ask me personally via skype/AIM/facebook/email/whatever. I will say that the night did end with my friend Peter and I making some Jordanian fruit selling guys that gave us free oranges and bananas. It was fun.

Now it's back to the grind. Oh well.