Today was another busy day. We left the hotel at 9am and went to a NGO, Women's
Organization to Combat Illiteracy. It was wonderful . They work together with the
Ministry of Education. They encourage women to stay in school until 18, they
teach family planning and have regular classes. It seems almost every government and
NGO is working on the family planning issue. The main problem is the refugees are really overworking a rather fragile economy. Jordan is 7th in the world of countries
short of water. Believe me when I tell you its dry here.
Next we were invited to a community open house presented by the police. Today
they had doctors and health care people there. The police encourage people to take
an active participation in their own protection. I have to tell you AGAIN that Jordan
is very peaceful and crimes againest people are few and far between. I went to the
GOLD market yesterday (YES I I DID)Nabil, one of the shopkeepers took me store
to store and "took" pieces for me to look at to his store. While we were gone his
store was open..One of the girls, Lisa, left her entire purse behind at an internet
cafe and it was still there the next day, when she returned. Compare that to my being
robbed the first 10 minutes I was in Madrid.
After that we went to Salt (don't ask, I don't know where it is)to the Institute
of Islamic Arts and Architecture. They are reviving and learning all kinds of crafts,
for Mosks and personal use. We saw them making tiles, carving plaster and wood and
carving invgraving metals. The campus was set on a hillside overlooking Salt. We
went to lunch it Salt where I had, you guessed it, FALAFEL HUMMOS PITA...
I am now at the Kempenski trying to type, download etc. I got my CAMERA back.. it
cost a grip but so worth it. I posted some older shots that I thought were great.
We went to a hip place last night. The blue fig. I actually ate a real SALAD!! Real
pizza and had real tequilla! Yeah. They had a live band. All the kids were dressed
very very hip.. they reminded me of becky. Silly MIMI decided she wanted sushi. The
guy at the front told her not too but she did.. guess what they use for salmon in
their sushi.. that's right.. LOX! We're off to Rainbow street and the expatriot bookstore for dinner.