ie hello from jordan!! Jordan is WONDERFUL, i'm loving it! The plane ride was ok, but a little too long for someone who was lonely and slept i think 2 out of 12 hours. But i had a bunch of books and music so i was good. When we got there, there were 15 or so people from my program and SIT on my plane so we all went through customs together chatting. Luggage wasn't an issue, and then we joined a large group of other CIEE students. Drove to the hotel, got my room and current roommate (Audra), and it was like orientation all over again--we mingled and chatted and introduced ourselves to the other 70+ students.
Today we went to the Dead Sea. SOOO MUCH FUN!!!!! 1st off we went to the Dead Sea observatory and had our orientation. we played the best "getting to know you" game: Allison Hodgkins, the resident director, took all the info we wrote in our "well-polished essays" and when she called out something that applied to us we had to stand up and look around at who else was standing. Then for the next half of the day we floated in the Dead Sea, covered ourselves with mud (free spa! and lots of fun!) and swam in the pool that the resort had. It was a ton of fun.
Tomorrow is our Arabic placement exam, signing up for classes, and other odds and ends to get us ready. There's going to be a study group tonight to review Level 2; we're all afraid of being placed in a too low level cuz none of us studied over the summer. oops. Also, i have a homestay!!!!!!!! yes!!!!!!!! all the girls have one and most of the boys that asked for it.
I'm as excited as i can be and having a WONDERFUL time!!!
last note--internet is AWWFUL here so i won't be checking it extremely often. but i'll update when i can.
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Yay! I'm very excited that you're there and everything is good. Orientation with so many people is sort of ehhh (I cannot remember that many names), but I'm glad you're having fun. The Dead Sea sounds pretty awesome - you better have taken pictures and be posting them on some site, since you can't access Facebook.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you'll do fine on your Arabic placement exam. Let me know if you can't access LJ - I'll email you my updates if not, cos I want everyone to know what I'm doing! Ok, that sounds a bit weird. But really. Love you, miss you, viele gluck! Much love from Austria!
I'm so happy you got there safe and sound and got your homestay :-) Can't wait to hear about what classes you're taking and Arabic level you make it into! Keep up the awesome attitude!!!!! Miss you so much...
ReplyDeleteLove you always-
Yael