i watched 5 movies, wrote a poem about my ghosts, kicked 30 strangers out of my house, and hitchhiked to the dead sea and back using 2 vans, a bus, and an open trailer full of cabbage and sugar cane. i rode a bedouin’s donkey down the dead sea beach, sunk into the salty mud so deep that my boots will always have healing powers, took bets on the GDP of bhutan, and carved a heart into a placemat at a jordanian pizza parlor. i learned that guinea is the world’s largest exporter of boxite, was picked up by 2 palestinians who kept saying “i love you bush?” (i think they were confused), had my first snow day, and when the call to prayer sounded at 4:30am i was definitely awake to hear it.
last thursday we had kind of a sketch party, there were a lot of weird jordanians i didnt know. so sketch and ridiculousness was had, i was told that i look like a movie star, and i had to kick a bunch of strangers out of my house. sweet.
so friday, we didnt feel like doing much. we went to the spaceship for popeyes chicken and very tired pepsi. we then had to make the trek through the icy wind up the stairs of doom, which had become a waterfall in the ice flood. while my roommates were smart and went inside to get warm, i borrowed a camera and went outside to take pictures of the flood. it was beautiful. i am putting them in an album. it is called “water shortage”. this is ironic, because we in jordan are apparently in the middle of a drought, but school was cancelled today because it snowed and the streets turned into lakes. tij?
my friend called me while i was on the stairs trying to capture the ridiculous that they are when it rains, and asked if we wanted to come over and watch a movie. this was around 3 pm. so i came home and we got ready to go and i brushed my hair (so rare an occasion it is worth putting in the blog) and we put on our boots and our whatnots again, and we went over to watch a movie.
we didnt come back for 3 days.
they had just bought a bunch of movies, so we had a few to choose from. sunflower was forced to pick the first one, which was “rachel getting married”. intense movie, let me tell you. after that we went out for pizza, and i carved a heart into a paper placemat because i felt bad carving into the table... but i wanted to leave a heart. so i did. and we got mushroom pizza because one of them likes mushrooms and combo pizza because it was the specialty of the pizzeria and margherita because two of them cant eat meat for lent, but only on fridays. and fish doesnt count as meat. in summary, catholics fast in strange ways.
so we went back home to the home that isn’t technically ours but really secretly is, and we watched pineapple express and then the curious case of benjamin button. and we had a blanket over us and it was very cozy.
phone call the next day said we were going to the dead sea. and why not? so we took a bus to the general area, were dropped off on the side of a highway, adopted a japanese tourist who spoke no arabic, and made our way to the water. there was a "bathroom" whose ceiling was explosed and tiles covered the floor, and there were also giant loose tires, like treads or something? ma3lish. it was warm and the sky was white and hazy, and we sunk into the mud. and we rode a bedouin's donkey on the water and the water was so salty it felt like oil and the salt stung our hands.
we hitchhiked to amman beach, trying to maybe get to a beach where people were?
ended up in a trailer bed full of cabbage and sugar cane, and then made our way back to amman in a van with no seats (which would be more unsafe than usual IF THE SEATS EVEN HAD SEATBELTS). our drivers congratulated us very enthusiastically on obama. spent the rest of the weekend taking bets of the gdp of various african countries, and playing "who knows the most countries in the world by order of continent". we're really, really cool kids. not nerdy at all. ohhh jordan.
also, had my FIRST SNOW DAY EVER. and it was in the desert. ridiculous. and awesome.
what will i do when i live in places where i can't always rest assured that i will laugh out loud on a minute-by-minute basis because life is so insane?
probably move, i guess.
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