21 May 2012

Yesterday was supposed to just be a chill out day. We didn’t have anything planned, which was good. Time to catch up on everything that we’d been putting off because we’re always so busy. It didn’t really turn out that way though. There’s so much to catch up on.

In the afternoon, Jenna and I went out to run a few errands. We successfully figured out the Arabic ATM, and my bank thankfully did not cancel the transaction on me. That might be a bad thing, but it makes things easier. At least for now. We went out to eat at this small restaurant that our group really seem to likes. We got into a really nice conversation with the store owner. He even brought us out coffee!

Last night I went with Jenna to her church’s “sister” church. It was a service entirely in Arabic, and I didn’t really understand whole concepts, but I was happy with how many words I could pick out. Church is run in fusHa which is the formal Arabic that I’ve been studying. Jenna and I were also pretty good at singing along. A woman in front of us kept helping us find the pages we needed to go to. We were a little slow for the pace of the service, so it was really helpful. Then we stayed to have tea with the parishioners. They were all really nice. They talked to us in Arabic but had enough English that we could still have a functioning conversation. One of them said that he would connect us with his children so that we could have language partners. He also said that he would show us all around Amman at some point.

Homework was a bit less productive. I finished everything that need to be done, but there’s a lot coming up. Tonight there’s even more homework for tomorrow, so there will be even more procrastination. At least I try. I have a feeling that the schoolwork is going to just continue to be this intense. At least it’s productive. But I’m off to do homework!