My Weekend

As many of you will know the week in Jordan goes from Sunday to Thursday allowing for the weekend on Friday and Saturday. This Thursday evening we went for a 'barty' around Pip and Kirk's swanky pad where we were shouted at by an elderly woman across the street who kept spitting on the ground in disgust. It was fair to say that on that night was perhaps cut short.

Friday came and I stayed in most of the day, but then in the afternoon Awat and I went to go and meet Jasmine on Rainbow Street  (شاريع راينبوو) where there is a special handicrafts souq (سوق) on Fridays. The street was buzzing and there seemed to be a lot going on. Awat and I saw a drumming group playing outside Subway, yes that's right there are Subways here too, but we didn't think a great deal of them. Then after we went to a shop called ملابس (malaabis) which means clothes. It is a really cool shop with great T-Shirts with funny Arabic puns on them. That night there was also an up and coming artist playing upstairs. His name was Perfect and Insane and this is one of his songs.

I really liked him and I really wish he had an album, because I would have bought it right there and then. He was kind of Newton Faulkner-esque, but sung in Arabic for the majority of the time which was great!

We then had a falafel and hummus rap thing, which I like to say is chickpeas with more chickpeas or fried chickpeas with a chickpeas sauce. It was actually very nice and we had a good time sitting on Rainbow Street before going to meet the other Exeter students at La Calle, which is a bar.

The next day the JLA put on a tour of Amman which meant that we had to be at the JLA for 9 which I was not a massive fan of at the weekend. However, the day was quite fun except for the hour we stood around waiting for the muslims in our group to pray. Actually I had pretty much seen everything that we were shown, but it was good for meeting people from the other universities who are studying with us and we also got a free lunch at Hashems, which is a really famous hummus and falafel place. (Yes you are right all they eat is hummus and falafel, no I'm only kidding they eat shawerma as well!)