Day 27 fee Al-Urdun, or how graduating UJ arabic is rather rewarding

so yesterday was the final day of arabic. i took my written final for maisel and while i did not do as well as i had planned, i did well enough. it was just good to get that junk completed.

(tuesday i took my 15 minute oral exam with nour. and i ROCKEDDDD it!)

in any event, after the end of my exams we had to stick around for the dean of the university to do a "graduation ceremony" where he handed us certificates and congratulated us for surviving arabic. :)

i was really surprised to learn that... even the middle easterners can pronounce my name better than those back home. doctor nadia announced my name and got it dead on. (granted it was with an accent, but dammit! if people 6,000 miles away, who's first language is NOT english, can pronounce my name right.... then by golly people at home should be able to.)

oiy.

/end rant.

last night was also our farewell dinner with our professors. i'm really gonna miss nour. near the end she became one of my favorite people on this trip.

(amusingly enough, on the drive to the restaurant i told sandra "10 bucks she pulls one of our hair tonight." ....who should have won 10 bucks? ohhhh yeah.)

it was fun to get everyone together one last time. under the giant canopy. this is the second time we went to this really famous/awesome restaurant in amman. delicious food and shay. beautiful fountains and VERY attentive waitstaff. i am seriously going to miss being so respected by my servers. they are so so much cooler here. i'm just sayin'.

and then the time came to go home.

today we shall see mount nebo -- where moses died.

and explore the surrounding city. we will then end the day hanging out in hot springs. delicious, huh? i think so.

the days are numbered. gotta cram in the fun while i can!

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