Guess what! For the past three days, I've been staying here illegally! Usually, CIEE receives our residency visas a week or two after we arrive, but this semester it hasn't worked out. So everyone who hasn't left the country has been here illegally for a bit. Whoops! I got a text and a call from Ahmad (one of the CIEE coordinators) saying meet him at the Laungage Center NOW. Then 6 other students and I went to the Shmesani police station and got a visa extention. It took FOREVER! But I got it and I'm legal for another month; hopefully by then I'll have a real student visa. (I'll be a real boy!) All in all, there are about 30 students with this problem. He decided to get my group today and the rest are leaving classes tomorrow. Best of luck to them!
Otherwise, things have been good. It was great seeing Becca last Friday night; I REALLY enjoyed her work partners. And I got to meet a Jordanian billionaire (multi-millionaire?) which is something to boast about. :)
Saturday I went with people to Bethany-Beyond-the-Jordan, or the site where John baptized Jesus. It was really nice. Tho it was amusing how I was standing in a Muslim country (with armed guards all over), at a Christian holy site, with the Israeli flag flying big and strong across from me.
No!!! Maher just, and I mean just, got a job offer from another country (Saudi Arabia) to work there until May. And the whole family (minus Shireen) will be leaving in a few weeks. BOO!! It's gonna be VERY different without the children here. I'm glad I'm here to keep Shireen company, but still...I'm gonna miss them like CRAZY.
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