too much falafel...Eeee

So I’ve been slacking on the blog, but I’ve been crazy busy. I went to Ajloun and Jerash, two cities in Northern Jordan, a few days ago. In Ajloun we saw the Ajloun Castle which was built in 1184 to keep the Franks from invading Ajloun. Crusaders spent decades trying to capture the castle, but they were unsuccessful. The castle has been through two earthquakes, but it’s still amazing. They were filming a movie in the castle while we were there, it was so bazaar. We had to be quiet while we were inside, and we would occasionally watch all these people acting out these corny ass scenes being filmed. We went up to the highest point of the castle and could see the Jordan Valley in the distance, and a very foggy view of mountains of Israel. There was also a road that prophet Ibrahim had once walked on during his travel through Jordan that you could see from this point.
From Ajloun we went to Jerash.
Jerash had the most remarkable Roman ruins I have ever seen. The city of Jarresh is pretty much all ancient ruins. There were an endless amount of roman pillars everywhere that we could just run around. We were literally a giant group of kids on a field trip frolicking about, completely awe struck by the things that we were seeing. We saw to amphitheaters while we were walking around. We went inside one and these two arab dudes that work there started rocking out! One was playing the drums and another was playing the bagpipes! It was soo sick. We left from there and I did some shopping at this small market place. I was bargaining and it was the first time I’ve gotten mistaken for a native while I was speaking!! Pretty pretty exciting. I only said like two sentences, and the guy quickly found out I was American, but regardless… awesome. We had some great food too, I ate until I was about the throw up, it was sweet.
The food so far in Jordan is fine. I eat falafel every single day….everyday. I think I’ve gained a solid 5 pounds.
I miss Indian food like crazy. No food here will ever be spicey. Sometimes I’ll ask waiters to make sure my food is extra hot and it will come out with not the slightest hint of spiceyness. I want Chinese food…. And starburst…. And dunkin donuts coffee.
Chai with mint leaves in it… also something I have become addicted to… I’m definitely going to be making that like crazy in my apartment next year.
It’s starting to get hot as satins sanctuary here… It wasn’t too bad for the first month, but now it’s about 100 everyday… and it’s only going to get progressively hotter from this point on… ahh
I’m sweating and eating pita covered in nutella…. mmm