Another intense weekend! Talk about sitting in a buss and doing the tourist thing: running around, taking pictures and trying to breathe it all in very fast! Friday morning at 9 am a bus drove outside our house and the whole international group packed in it for the day's sightseeing. Near the city of Madaba is Mount Nebo, a mountain at which Moses is said to be buried, although no-one knows where. However, there is a Moses Memorial at the mountain, a holy p...

Water, no water, water, no water.... The tab water in Amman is not drinkable. We heard that the water comes from Israel, and although there is a contract that under no circumstances will Israel cut the water flow, this contract does not state what kind of water they are to let through. So people drink bottled water or cook it, even locals. For household purposes there is a water container on the roof, and when it empties in some 2-3 days (we are 5 girls livi...

Life is good! And for some, life is God. Religion is very visible here, Islam, that is. We have spent the last two Intercultural Communication lessons discussing more or less heatedly muslim way of life versus western way of life. It has been an eye-opening experience and made me better understand the culture here and the way people (especially how women) dress and behave. Still there is so much that I don't approve even though I now better understand. But as wi...

Marhaba! (Welcome, thou can also be used as hello!) We arrived to Amman early on saturday morning, and now after 3 days I can tell you one thing: I like it here! The food is great, we have been eating different jordanian dishes (although not yet the national dish which -if we are lucky - contains a head of a lamb..) and they ahve been delicious! The food is well spiced, but mostly not too much, lots of eating with a help of a piece of bread and hands. And the be...