people make plans and god laughs

That's been this entire past week. Tuesday, we had a meeting about our residency cards...which were not completed yet, but soooo close. Actually, we've been able to pick them up since yesterday (but the CIEE office is closed during the weekend so I now need to wait till Sunday)

On Wed, I went on a field trip with my Water class to the largest wastewater treatment plant in Jordan, which treats the water for about 50% of the population. It was REALLY interesting. After that, we headed up to Irbid, way up north, to the highest point in North Jordan to see the Tiberias Lake (the Sea of Galilee). We were maybe half an hour's walk (and a canyon river and a few minefields) away from the Golan Heights. That was great to see. BEAUTIFUL view, though striking the difference between the Israeli side and the Jordinian---from where we were standing, it was desert, desert, desert, GREEN (Israel). Then we went as close to the King Talal Dam as we could but by that point it was sunset so we couldn't see anything. And it was too far away and around a bend. But the rest of the field trip was good.

Around 1:15, during the field trip, I got a call from my Dana partner saying she was really sick and not up to hiking. But I joined a group to go to Wadi Mujib so that was disappointing but still good. Later we got a call from Steward, one of the heads of CIEE, saying one of the students had the flu, possibly the swine flu, so no school Thursday or Sunday. Islam midterm is pushed forward more! After that everyone was planning their trips to Lebanon and Syria and possibly Jerusalem and everyone was NUTS! I decided to stay for various reasons. But long weekend and I FINALLY get to relax some!

Yesterday (thursday) was spent writing a paper, planning what I'm going to do for the long weekend and with who, writing a paper, and listening to the downpour. Tis winter, tis the rainy season! But that also meant that Wadi Mujib was canceled. SERIOUSLY??? Sooooooo instead we decided to visit Madaba today which was fine. Last time was better but it was still fun. A relaxing day. And now I'm sitting partially watching tv, mostly reading Sherlock Holmes in Arabic and English (happy Lilah :) ).
Every Thursday they play American movies in Arabic and last night was Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers. GLORIOUS!!!!!! I understood none of it yet all of it. Next week is the Godfather trilogy I'm so excited. Absolutely gonna stay up for that. Won't it be great, the first time I'm seeing the rest of those movies it's in Arabic.