Jordan: Family

I can put more updates later but in this post I just wanna talk about the family I visited yesterday.

I met with my language partner Shefa' on Monday and she told me that I should visit her aunt who lives in Amman. She said I would sleep there too. I agreed so yesterday I met her at the University and together we took a bus.

As soon as I got there, everyone was SOOOO welcoming!! I felt so comfortable there, and everyone has a great personality. It was one of the best times I've had in Jordan yet.

The family was together, everyone was interacting, everyone was SO NICE and fun, and nobody got mad at me for not understanding. I used more Arabic in their house than I ever had this whole trip. There were 3 kids, and I played checkers with the boy. He and his sister helped me learn Arabic animals, plants, and other things from this one book. He later gave me the book.. that was really sweet :)

Ramadan breakfast was sooooooooooooo nice. It was such a great feeling to not be starving. The food was delicious. I don't know the name, but the main dish was potatoes, onions, red peppers, and chicken... then there was rice, and another side of something green (don't know the name either) and noodle soup. The white stuff in the glasses is yogurt. Also there was a cooked thing with eggs, onions, and flour.... DELICIOUS. Oh, and salad. And bread of course.

For a Ramadan dessert, there's a treat called 'aTayef (or qaTayef.. or gaTayef, whatever accent you want). They look like empanadas, but they're sweet like crepes... there were 2 different fillings, one was like a yogurt-cream-cheese and the other one was a mixture of crushed things (nuts and sugar and other things I don't know.)

AHHHHHH everything was just so good! And everyone, including the kids, kept saying "Welcome, welcome!" and "Everything in this house is yours!" I think I drank tea 3 times, coffee twice, and hot chocolate once. The kids are so great. They talked to me a lot and so did everyone. It was just great. I came to Jordan for this.