So, tomorrow morning I'm heading out to live with a Bedouin family in the Badia for four days. I guess it's going to be pretty rustic but I'm pumped to wear my whole Bedouin get up, found out a cool way to tie my kafia too so hopefully my host family will be impressed by that.
I haven't posted many pics lately but I promise I will next week (no internet at my house right now and I can't seem to upload photos at SIT, lot of stuff working against me but I'll figure it out). After the Badia, we'll all be going to the Dead Sea to debrief, I heard we'll be at a really nice part with pools and hookah and a great beach by the Dead Sea so I'm really excited for that too. Today was our Fus-Ha midterm, Fus-Ha is the Arabic in the media and in novels but it is not what is spoken by the people. We study both Fus-Ha and 3meia at SIT, our 3meia test was this last Sunday which was pretty easy but the Fus-Ha test destroyed everyone in the class. It's an extremely difficult part of the language and because the entire class is in Arabic, it's tough sometimes to follow what's going on. Bums me out but my Fus-Ha grade will be nicely balanced out by my 3meia grade so I'm not too worried, just looking forward to roughing it in the Badia for a few days - no showers, no European toilets, lots of animals and outdoors, lots of mansaaf (the traditional dish of Jordan), oh yeah, this is gonna' be fun. You probably won't hear from me until after the Bedouin homestay since there's no real internet connection but no worries, no news is good news.
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