To the many of you who have now been urging me to update my blog, your cries have been answered. I am sorry for not updating my blog frequently, but I have to take a bus an hour to use the internet, and I am normally only able to do this once a week for an hour or so, in which time e-mail and news take priority.
But enough of that, you all want to know how things have been going in Jafer. Well, Ramadan was slow and I am glad it's over because no one worked and the Youth Center was almost always closed. Though it is unlikely I would have done much had I arrived in another month, as I was consistantly busy making my house comfortable and introducing myself to others. I really can't complain at all about my villiage; the people are very friendly, and my first two week I believe I only cooked for myself once.
About to weeks ago I visited my friend Curtis, who works in the Youth Center in Querria, about an hour and a half away on bus (atleast). One day we went to Aqaba, which is the small strip of land Jordan has on the Gulf of Aqaba. At first we tried to sneak into the five-star hotels and use there beach facilities, but to no avail, security is quite tight. In one of the hotels I was lucky enough to have my first drink in three months, a $9 Pinta Colata, but it was very much worth it. After leaving the hotel we saw two guys run off the street and hop a fence, towards the beach, and decided to follow in suite, and found a place on the beach that lied in a sort of no-mans-land between two hotels and was walled in. After swimming for two hours or so we went to the Pizza Gut there for a Ramadan fast-ending buffet, which was quite delicious, quickly stoped at safeway to purchase some foodstuffs not available at the corner store in Jaffer, and went back to Curtis' for another night. It was quite a day.
I have been promised to go to the desert with my landlord soon, and will keep you all updated as that develops. Also, next week I am hitting up the big city, Amman, to pick up my absentee ballot, see some Americans, and on Saturday attend an "International Peace Corps Sports Day." Evidently Japan and Australia have organizations like Peace Corps in Jordan, and one volunteer put this event together as a sort of 'meet and greet;' should be fun.
I promise to keep the blog updated more regularly in the future, buses run more frequently now that Ramadan and Eid are over.
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Hi! My name is Brooke and I'm an RPCV of Mauritania (NW Africa, 2006-2008) and will be spending the summer in Amman! I will be working for a USAID-funded economic development project and wanted to connect with the PCV community in Jordan if possible. I have a few questions about Amman and Jordan and would love to get a PCV's perspective! Please email me at brooke.olster@gmail.com when you have time. Thanks!
It is so amazing that you are doing Peace Corps in Jordan!
I am hoping to be able to join after undergraduate! And was hoping to work in Jordan, how do you like it?
What are the attitudes, in general, to you from the Jordanians?
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