Hey guys! so my host family doesn't have internet, which if you really know me, you know it is KILLING me!! But i have been here for like 3 weeks now and everything is going okay? I got attacked by mosquitos my first night... 35 on one hand!!
Arabic is eating my face... it is sooo hard! It makes me tired just thinking of it but when I leave language class i go to my host family and all they speak is Arabic!! And then i just give them a blank stare and say in english "i don't know what that means" and then they yell it louder at me... my host family also found out that I am very ticklish. They poke me all the time. OH and there soul mission for the time i stay with them is to make me fat. This isn't just something i think they are doing... they tell people that they need to make me bigger. They tell me to "coolie" which is eat all the time... even when i say i am done "hamdulila" or "shaibana" they say no and take my spoon and put the food in my mouth. I think they just might succeed in there mission.
All of my fellow peace corpers are super awesome and sassy. We have a lot of fun.
The other day my family gave me two pieces of cake for breakfast but I was also running late for class to i speed walked to school but also had to finish my cake. Nothing has made me feel more fat than being out of breath from run/walking to school while shoving cake into my mouth.
OH and there are soooo many stray cats here! They are so cute but not very nice. And i saw camels and goats and sheep and bunnies and pigeons (one which was picked up and thrown at my friends head... hehe) and chickens and roosters. A lot of animals.
It is already getting cold here and I have already been laughed at by the jordanians about how many layers i am already wearing. Little do they know i have many bigger and more layery layers I haven't even taken out of my suitcase yet!
I taught my host family the macarena and many other american dances such as the sprinkler and the shopping cart.
okay that was just a bunch of random things that have happened to me over the past couple of weeks. I love you all and miss you guys so much!!
oh and i saw a circumcision in my living room on my second day... okay bai love you mean it!
XOXO
Laura
Arabic is eating my face... it is sooo hard! It makes me tired just thinking of it but when I leave language class i go to my host family and all they speak is Arabic!! And then i just give them a blank stare and say in english "i don't know what that means" and then they yell it louder at me... my host family also found out that I am very ticklish. They poke me all the time. OH and there soul mission for the time i stay with them is to make me fat. This isn't just something i think they are doing... they tell people that they need to make me bigger. They tell me to "coolie" which is eat all the time... even when i say i am done "hamdulila" or "shaibana" they say no and take my spoon and put the food in my mouth. I think they just might succeed in there mission.
All of my fellow peace corpers are super awesome and sassy. We have a lot of fun.
The other day my family gave me two pieces of cake for breakfast but I was also running late for class to i speed walked to school but also had to finish my cake. Nothing has made me feel more fat than being out of breath from run/walking to school while shoving cake into my mouth.
OH and there are soooo many stray cats here! They are so cute but not very nice. And i saw camels and goats and sheep and bunnies and pigeons (one which was picked up and thrown at my friends head... hehe) and chickens and roosters. A lot of animals.
It is already getting cold here and I have already been laughed at by the jordanians about how many layers i am already wearing. Little do they know i have many bigger and more layery layers I haven't even taken out of my suitcase yet!
I taught my host family the macarena and many other american dances such as the sprinkler and the shopping cart.
okay that was just a bunch of random things that have happened to me over the past couple of weeks. I love you all and miss you guys so much!!
oh and i saw a circumcision in my living room on my second day... okay bai love you mean it!
XOXO
Laura
