We had Thanksgiving at some friends’ apartment last night. It was one of the best night’s here in terms of re-creating home. Natasha and I had Dabkeh dance practice (because we’re performing at our host family dinner), so we didn’t get to get in on the cooking, but we provided other things. Anyways, I just wanted to show you guys that I did indeed get a real Thanksgiving in Amman, so you don’t feel sorry for me.
The Turkey.
The complete plate. (without the Pecan pie and apple crisp though 
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On a completely different note, there was a bee in our classroom today. Now, this has happened before, but today, our teacher, Salah, explained that if there is a bee in the room, he has to kill it because he’s allergic (or so we gathered from piecing our arabic vocab with the sign language and acting). So he kills this bee by swatting it with his handful of papers and then slowly stepping on it. After that, we had to put it on top of the board so it could “watch” our class. And guess what? I had my camera with me.
There’s the naHla, resting peacefully on the whiteboard. Then he wrote under it “Don’t kill me. I’m dead. Saleh Hamdan killed me”. Just in case someone thought it was still alive and wanted to kill it… Really one of the funniest classes ever.
Tomorrow (Thanksgiving day) we leave for Egypt. I’m glad I get to be with friends on Thanksgiving. Ironically, tomorrow is the one day of the Islamic Eid Al-Adha that it’s required to fast all day. If that’s not irony, I don’t know what is.
Happy Thanksgiving and Eid Mubarak.
Glad you got to eat so well! You sound happy – we will make up for our missed holiday hugs when you get home. Kell
haha, so you could say that you went to the dead see and I saw the dead bee.. ha!!
That bee is either pretty good sized or you have a great zoom feature on your camera
To funny.