Jordan Pics part II

This figure represents Palestine--shackled.

I, not realizing how sensitive an issue it is, made a lovely faux pas my first day. Trying to find some common ground I mentioned that I'd visited Jordan once before following a trip to Israel. The lady I was speaking to stopped me and said, "Because we are Muslim and because we are Arabs we say, 'Palestine.'" Oh. Yikes.

They really do always refer to Israel as Palestine. Many of the Jordanians are displaced Palestinians, in fact I'd say the majority of people I talked to were originally from Palestine.

We totally climbed into the diorama thing and posed with the manequin!

Posing in front of the Jordan University Library.



Jordanian student nurses and their clinical instructor, Tagreedh--her name means the sound of birds. Isn't that cool? The meaning of names is really important in Jordan and they'd always ask us what our names meant. Um, nothing?



University hospital.

Tiny nurse.

Ok, everyone posed.

Heads!

Cute Jordanian student nurses.

Our BYU students were like celebrities, random girls would come up and want to have their picture taken with the Americans.

Model pose.

First day of church--black skirt, green top, no surprise.

The church isn't officially recognized so there isn't a real chapel and it can't be called a church, hence, Center for Cultural and Educational Affairs.

Shiny happy people.

Listening very intently during orientation.

Our little undergrads and the PhD students.

Posing with the Ambassador to Jordan, Stephen Beecroft, BYU Alumnus.

Chowing down on yummy food at the Ambassador's.

Posing with Princess Muna, aka "Toni". She's the King's mother but was never queen, although she was married to the former King. They met on the set of Lawrence of Arabia, isn't that funny?

I'm clearly anxious to be part of the picture.

Linger longer.

Feeling chatty on the patio.

Happy at the Ambassador's digs.
Why on earth did we pose around that hideous table?

Jordan Pics

Hooka pipes, apparently very popular.

DVDs, very popular.


Cigarettes, also very popular.

View of Amman from the hospital.

Clockwise from the top:

Baba Ganoojh, Cucumbers & tomatoes, Cheese, Hummus, Meeta Bel, Tabouleh.
Yummy!

Hair!

View from my room.

Macawer--where John the Baptist was beheaded.

I don't get why Herod built palaces in the middle of nowhere...

Climbing up.

Jamel.

Shwerma time!

Man?

Mt Nebo.

Sheep.

Moving rocks.

Moab!

See what I mean about the middle of nowhere?

I wore the same clothes everywhere we went.

Dressed up for El Papa

That would be El Papa, Benedicto, in the pope-mobile.

Go figure, a bunch of Mormons, in Amman, going to see the pope.

Jerash

More Jerash.

And more Jerash.

Gas station attendant.

Um Qays

I did try to upload more pictures, but it wasn't meant to be. Jerash and Um Qays were part of the Decapolis--10 cities built by the Greeks/Romans, linked econmomically. Amman was the ancient Philadelphia and was part of it, Jerusalem, Caesarea--I have no idea what the rest were. Anyway, I'll have to try uploading another time.

This time I'm plugged in...

well, curses. I've been trying for the past 10minutes to upload pictures and it's just not working. I'll have to try again when I'm at the church.

I have sketchy internet access at best but the church has wireless and we're going to Enrichment on Wednesday, I'll try again then.

Jordan Pictures

This won't let me add any pictures at the moment so this might be it for a little while. This is a picture on campus. Typically the women aren't fully covered like the one in the foreground, she just happened to be there.

Inidvidually packaged cups of water. These are three of the seven girls I came to Jordan with.

This is in the airport.

This is right after we arrived, we're all a little haggard but hey, 18hrs of travel.

Orientationat at the Faculty of Nursing. They say faculty instead of college, I don't know why.


oops, I think my battery's going to die before I'm done so I'll have to finish up later.