Crazy weekend, indeed!
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Thursday: Fraught with long discussions, the sinking realization that my brain was slowly melting and my schedule had gone completely out of whack, tired looks from across the desk as Oks and I ended up at Graphic Club slowly eating potato wedges, and then I decided to join Jan (our Dutch CEED), Rachel and Oksana to go see a classical music concert at the Roman Amphitheatre..
So the very exhausted Oks and I had a random evening walking downtown where we first bought fruit juice cocktails, sweets and then settled outside the theatre drinking tea and eating the sweets, talking about life and listening to strains of music as we decided we couldn't afford to spend 5 JD each on tickets..
And - to our surprise - the event organizers saw us sitting outside and offered us free invitation cards, and we spent the rest of the concert inside enthralled at the music and listening to some of the most well known pieces live...the best end to a very exhausting week!
Friday: Rachel, Jan, Natalie, Oks and I head to Mafraq to catch a bus to Umm al Jimal. A rather crazy episode continued - as there are no direct buses there, so our Mafraq bus drivers got us into a bus headed somewhere else, directed them to take us to Umm al Jimal, got an entire family off the bus to make space for us..
..and after an afternoon of climbing Roman ruins, eating falafel sandwiches and long jokes..
...we tried to make our way back to Mafraq. We hitchiked a ride with a family whose kids instantly fell in love with Jan, tried feeding him his Nokia phone as the father told Jan he was looking for his next wife and asked him if he would consider taking the kids back to Holland with him.
And now its Saturday - and I'm in the office, freezing, blogging, working, chatting with my very hilarious family and drinking tea :)
So the very exhausted Oks and I had a random evening walking downtown where we first bought fruit juice cocktails, sweets and then settled outside the theatre drinking tea and eating the sweets, talking about life and listening to strains of music as we decided we couldn't afford to spend 5 JD each on tickets..
And - to our surprise - the event organizers saw us sitting outside and offered us free invitation cards, and we spent the rest of the concert inside enthralled at the music and listening to some of the most well known pieces live...the best end to a very exhausting week!
Friday: Rachel, Jan, Natalie, Oks and I head to Mafraq to catch a bus to Umm al Jimal. A rather crazy episode continued - as there are no direct buses there, so our Mafraq bus drivers got us into a bus headed somewhere else, directed them to take us to Umm al Jimal, got an entire family off the bus to make space for us..
..and after an afternoon of climbing Roman ruins, eating falafel sandwiches and long jokes..
...we tried to make our way back to Mafraq. We hitchiked a ride with a family whose kids instantly fell in love with Jan, tried feeding him his Nokia phone as the father told Jan he was looking for his next wife and asked him if he would consider taking the kids back to Holland with him.
And now its Saturday - and I'm in the office, freezing, blogging, working, chatting with my very hilarious family and drinking tea :)
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