im in amman!
for the next few days we all have the luxury of slow wireless connection in the hotel and after that, in our homestays, it is not likely that we will. there are internet cafes nearby though.
since i have internet and a minute to write, i’d like to start with…these are the kindest people ever! they want to make you feel right at home.
secondly, there is very little grass. i was thinking this in my head when a local said aloud “grass is impractical.” then i thought about how we spend so much time and money working to make grass green and lushious only to cut it down with a machine when it begins to grow.
third. there is a lot of beige here. the stone buildings and the food-hummus, baba ganoush, the pita, and tahini namely.
fourth. there is big time water scarity here. short showers, water is expensive! and off color!
people smoke constantly here. from a really young age. and they drive horribly—even compared to me, and there are many traffic accidents. despite these things the average lifespan here in jordan surpasses an average american by 3.5 months. its something like 78.4 compared to 78.1.
people here go out of their way to help each other out. i wonder if thats part of it..
band tees for solidarity!
please, please if you see me at a concert do not let me buy another shirt.
“life is after all a struggle. progress is attained through struggle, and without such a struggle life ceases to have a meaning; it becomes even extinct.” - Shoghi Effendi
thanks to saba, geo and zia. a snow covered cityday and infused it with beats, rhymes and life (respectively).
its been cold these days in kc. my one-month return to this city and back in the home i grew up in is passing by fast. i haven’t seen a forth of the friends i had intended on seeing, and i find myself forgetting that i am leaving the country for while in under three weeks (?!).
hello! welcome, i am humbled that you decided to take time to read what i decided to write on tuesday december 23rd at 12:40 am.
i was thinking it was time to have a blog again, and it feels right. i was once a member of the andropolis.org (if you are reading this, you should probably stop and go there) family but that came to an end when i felt my blogging had also come to an end. a while later, i opened one at wordpress and completely forgot about its existence. (now i feel obligated to mention that that is an incomplete history of my blogging career as i am neglecting, until this moment, to note that i did… i mean, i did have a xanga during middle school and early parts of high school…ahaha…)
but the truth is, i think maybe a blog is a platform to become a more coherent person by avoiding fragmenting life. i’m not sure if that makes much sense, but what i mean is, for example:
i am a Baha’i. i am a student. i accumulate a lot of speeding tickets. i am a member of my family. i go through tests like everyone else.
but..
i am never only a student and not a Baha’i. and i don’t go through life’s difficulties without being a member of my family.
since a blog is available for anyone to see, and you really do not know who in your life will read it…it challenges you to be a coherent person.
anyway, i think that made more sense in my head. maybe i will get better at conveying thoughts with practice.
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a belated word of caution:
i relish in the ability to forgo the capitalization of the first letter in each sentence. i think lower case is more friendly. also, sometimes i like including exclamation points inside the parenthesis. (like this!!!!)
