Amman News...

Back from Tunisia. The semester started- I'm now in level 4 (of 7). I feel advanced. There are about 30 people in the class, which is not so cool, and a lot of the vocab is translated directly into English, which is even less cool. One teacher is great and we do journalism and read articles and my understanding of Al-Jazeera and BBC news on the radio has gone way up in just 2 weeks. The other teachers is not so great. So far we have read a dumb story full of useless Koranic Arabic. Apparently our old teacher told one of my classmates the work is dumb, and we should move up to level 5. But I am scared to go so high so fast, I would rather take it slow and get the vocab right and a grammar review. It doesn't look likely that they will split the class.
Tuesday was my birthday. An adventure, which was nice. It had been a while. Ladies night out - a nice change from hanging out with sketchy guys.
Friday afternoon in the city. Very quiet. And it seems close to 70. Will check out the market, then sit in a cafe and do some work. I am way behind on vocab. What do I do now? I don't have the distractions of my neighbor any longer. I miss it...