May 16-21
It's great to be back in Amman. This week we arrived in Jordan on Tuesday, May 16th early in the morning. May 16: We started off our excursion with an orientation at Qasid by the Qasid director on academics and living in Jordan. Most of it was review but it was a good refresher after a year of living in anywhere but Jordan. We ate at the Al-Awa'il restaurant, which despite being right below Qasid I haven't ate at before, where we had mashaawi. We visited the Citadel in Amman, الجبل القلعة which is the site of a Roman temple to Hercules, a Byzantine church, an Umayyad palace, an Umayyad mosque, and an archeology museum for artifacts from early man to the Islamic period. We ended the day at Umsiat Amman, a restaurant near the city center. May 17: We took our placement tests today. For lunch we went to my favorite cheap falafel joint, Mat3am Hamadeh across the street from Qasid. In the evening, I ended up at Rainbow street in a cafe called Wild Jordan برية الأردن which i...