Marhaba

IM IN JORDAN!!!!

My first day was okay.... I guess...NOT!!!
IT WAS BLOODY AWESOME!!!
The flight was almost unbearable, 6 inches of leg room and what seemed like one million arab babies crying in unison (they were soo freaking cute though). It was a 12 hour direct flight, JFK to Amman. I think I slept for 20 minutes total. I stepped off the plane and took a deep breath and what did I smell??? Cigarretes!!! mmmmm. The airport had no smoking signs everywhere, yet you see dudes smokin it up. It was pretty funny. The 45 minute drive to our apartment was awesome. Amman is just desert with random establishments everywhere. We got to our apartment and it was sick, much better than what i expected. We're living on the top most level of our apartment complex (6^th floor). Our living room is surrounded by windows and we have a pretty cool view.
After we got settled our professor took us to his friends place for dinner. His wife made maddd food. 3 giant platters for 12 kids. ENORMOUS plates of rice and yogurt topped with huge pieces lamb meat, it was overwhelmingly delicious. We had mint tea...delicious.... Turkish coffee... delicious... my head was going to explode because my taste buds were on ecstasy.
The people's whose place we were at were all like we're going to eat with our hands. I thought i was about to school everyone with my hand eating skills. I look over and realized I was doing it all wrong! They were straight up rolling big balls of rice and meat the size my fist into their palms and eating them. It was beastly and awesome. So junglee.
We've been hitting up the sheesha place next door to our place like its our job. We're becoming friends with the manager and the waiters, everyone is incredibly friendly.
Everything so far is so much better than what i expected. The least exciting thing so far was my freezing cold shower, but I was too happy about everything so far to even care.
I'm chillin at the sheesha place right now, they have wireless internet here. The waiter has been coming by and teaching us some Arabic. Classes start in two days. Life good.