mra_mamnua's Journal

29 April, Saturday
Woke up at 7 a.m. cause I needed time to get to the uni, however Maen has also already got up and gave me a lift.
Today we went on the excursion to Desert castles - but 9t was so boring, moreover the heat was unbearable. And though we finished with the castles at 12 we returned home only at 4 p. m. cause they were driving us in the desert trying to find a proper place to have lunch. Stupid morans!!! Why couldn't they wait a bit till we return to Amman and they they would be able to go to any restraunt they wanted.
Anyway having returned we dined at our restraunt and I went to the family again. There we made my homework altogether and after dad read us a lecture in Arabic about consciousness and sub-conscious.
In the evening we watched "The silence of the lambs", and as I have already watched it approx. 5 times i felt asleep very quickly. When I wake up the film was about to end but everybody we=as also sleeping, I wake up the kids and we went to bed.

28 April, Friday
And though we went to bed at 7 a. m. only at 12 I already woke up because of strong feeling of hunger. And as everybody was still sleeping and there was no way to wake them up I had to make a trip searching 4 food on my own. When I got back home the girls were still sleeping and were not going to get up, so I had to go to the family by myself cause it aws Omr's birthday 2day.
When I reacher their place we were making a cake and decorating ot. Then had a dinner together and in the evening all the relatives came, we drank tea and gave Omr his presents.
Before going to bed we watched "Saw III". However the film was without subtitres and everybody was constantly screaming, so it was really hard to make out what they were talking about and the main idea wasn't very clear.
Though I was rather tired I didn't sleep well cause Maen and Muhammad made too much noises at night while they were helping mom to pack her things (she was going to Cyprus to see how Anas was going)

23 - 27 April, Monday - Thursday
Today is an Orthodox Ester, that's why all the orthdox were allowed not to come to the Language centre. And we couldn't miss such a good opportunity to have an extra time 4 sleeping. After waking up we were watching TV till 1 p.m. and waiting 4 his majesty Alex to wake up, but he wasn't going to do it by himself that's why we decided to help him to get up and ask to close the door otherwise we would die of hunger.
All this week was too boring and typical to describe it (studying, dinner, gym, home). And tough we had huge plans 4 this weekend (we wanted to go to Aquba with Samer) they were not going to come true. Cause right before the weekend his uncle had a cancer and needed an uergent operation. I was so upset, but could do nothing about it.
Instead of it we decided to go to a Spanish party to the house of Maria and Anna. However it was a really strange party. The are living in a very nice house in Abdoon with a splendid terrace on the top of it from where u can enjoy the nightview of Amman. But that was the only one positive moment about it. Cause everythong else seemed to be really weird: we knew very few people, cause most of the invited happened to be arabs that is not very typical 4 such kinda parties. Then there was only Spanish music playing and the guests got tired and bored with it very quickly. Almost the whole wevening I was talking with Chris (Danmark) in Arabic and when he left Svetlana and me stole some ships from the kitchen and went to the veranda upstairs where we were sitting on our own and discussing all kinds of things. Then Salvador interrupted us telling that Irina was searching 4 us. However Irina seemed to be enjoying her time, he spoke with almost all tyhe freaks on this party. Trying to fight the strong wish to sleep we made ourselves dance, but we didn't succeed much in dancing, so we decided to have a nap in one of the armchairs. A bit after we had a great idea to sleep on the matrasses that were lying on the floor in front of the entrance door. And we looked really great - "Kak 3 bomja s Kievskogo vokzala". Unfortunately even this kind of sleep didn't last long cause Maria came and said that they were going to sleep and needed tgose matrasses. Though ot was 6 a. m. and still very early We decided to start our way back home. We took a taxi and had a good deal of arguing with him cause he manted more money from us that the way really costed. And then we were sitting on the bench in the university drinking coffee and waiting 4 the dorm to be opened. And as soon as we managed to get there we went to bed and slept soundly...

22 April, Saturady
It aws really difficult 4 us to get up in the morning. But it was much more difficult to wake up Alex. However we got dressed very quickly and went to the uni. We were really in a hurry and came almost in time, so imagine how furious we were when we finally reached the language centre and there was no fucking bus there. Moreover it came only an hour later, damn it!!! We could have had an extra hour of sleep.
Anyway we reached Petra at 12.30 and we were told to return to the bus by 16.30 cause at 17.00 the bus will leave for Amman. And everybody went wherever they wanted. At first we were walking together with Irina, Andrey and Alex. But after reaching the main Kazna Sveta and me separated from the others and went to some cave to seat there in the shade cause it was really hot that day. It was so hot that we even took our shoes and me - my t-shirt. And we were really lucky cause nobody has seen this striptise.
An hour later we continued our way, however we decided not to climb to any monastries and temples up high and were just wandering and looking 4 water. However these damn bastards were selling water here 4 the prise 10 times more than it really is and we weren't ready to spend so much money. Finally were very tired and wanted to drink so much that the price wasn't important anymore. We sat in some cafe and when the waiter approached we started to ask him about the prices. He was surprised to hear us speaking arabic and I guess that he understood that we didn't want to spend much money, so he gave us water 4 free ( Oh man, God bless u!!!...)
In a little while Alex Joined us and there was the whole company with him: Luisa, Loina and Emil. The last two came here from Aquaba in order to visit the excursion with all the rest. However all of them decided to continue ther way up to see some monastry and we decided to have a bit of rest and then 2 return back cause there was only an hour left. Sveta and I wanted to ride a donkey on our way back busaid that it's not cook so we took a camel. We had a lot of fun... especially Alex ;)... especwhen the camels started running (hope u understand what i mean)
We were almost the first to return to the bus. So we had to wait 4 the rest till 18.00 So we had nothing ;left to do than to seat in the shade of some tree and to curse the others. "Stupid morans" that was the favourite expresson the day. We wanted to go to the church in the evening cause it was Easter but we reached Amman only at 9 and were so tired that we only had enerto have dinner in our fast food and then went to Alex once again, had shower, watched TV a bit and went to bed.

21 April, Friday
We woke up from the knock at the door that became a ring in a short while. It was Emil who was trying to get home and failed cause smth has happened to his key. We let him in, he took his things and left 4 Aquaba with Loina. Sveta and I made ourselves a kinda nest in front of the TV, then dances in our underwear in front of the mirror and then Andrey called us to invite to a restaurant in the City Centre. So we went there to celebrate a birthday of his brother to a place called "Hashem", this place is beleived to be the oldest restraunt in Amman. There we ate traditional ful and falyafil and went to have some dessert in "Habebah". Then we returned home. had a shower, Sveta went on a date with Samer and I went to Alex's place again. He made a dinner, we ate and talked and afted a couple of hours Sveta joined us. We tried to turn on the laptop but it was broken and we couldn't fix it, so we had nothing else to do than to go to bed, moreover we had to wake up at 7:30 next day cause we were goint on the excursion to Petra.

20 April, Thursday
Today I dared to make an unbeleivable thing - I dressed my white skirt. And though in Moscow it'd look quite decent cause the length is ok, but 4 arabs it was a kinda sensation. While i was walking to the Language centre people forgot completely where they were going and stared at me in surprise. But i guess on the whole it lokked quite nice cause even Dasha (the Ukranian girl) criticized me for such bravery.
During the break I gave Alex a transparent hint and he invited us to his place this evening. We bought chips, ice-crea,, juice and such kinda stuff and went to our Romanian friends. Though it seems a bit strange 4 me but Emil had no idea that we were comming, so he had already an appointment that evening that's why he had to leave around 10. Irina also left us about that time cause she went to Majdi. However before everybody had left we still had time to do a lot of things: we watched soccer, smoked callian, ate ice-cream dressed with bananas (Prikol: I wanted to serve ice cream dressed with bananas, so i took the fruits from the living room where we all were sitting and left to the kitchen having warned everybody not to enter the kitchen 4 some period of time. Everybody looked at me in surprise. Then Sveta asked:
- How many bananas do u have??
- Two
- Wait, I'm also comming with u
Everybody was lauphing)
After there were only three of us left we watched a film called "Collateral" starring Tom Cruise, during the film Sveta and me changed a great deal of positions trying to make ourselves comfortable. So Alex made a lot of fun of us. And in our turn we made a lot of fun of him cause comebody taught him a couple of Russian phrases like "Pizdetc blya" but he pronounces it with a really strong feeling as if he was Russian.

19 April, Wednsday
The first part of the day passed as usually. And in the evening Sweta went on a date with her hey friend. I was in a really awful mood, however I managed to cheer up I bit after they tried to teach me how to slice meat 4 shawarma and to roast traditional falyafil (pohoje na kotletki, kotorie jaryat v masle) in one of the fast-food that we usually visit. I was really captured by the procedure and enjoyed my time cause it was really funny. Even all the guys from that restraunt were laughing. After Svetlana left 4 her date I was joined by Irina and we walked a bit up the street looking into almost evey shop that was on our way. Retured home and were having out tea just at that time Sveta returned and she was really shining with happines cause she had spent a very nice evening with the guy (Samer's his name). They smoked kallian in some nice place...

18 April, Tuesday
In the morning Sveta claimed that she wasn't going to school 2day, when we asked what she wanted to do insted she answered that she'd find smth more interesting to do.
However we came to know about what she was doing all this time only after classes. She went to one of the streets in the outskirts of Amman and walked in the hills thinking and reading on her own. On her way back she got aquaited with some arabic guy whom she seemed to like.
After dinner we were completely bored on some lecture, I even don't reember it's title: but the woman was speaking on dialect and we couldn't understand a thing.
After the lecture finished we went to Aseel 4 a dinner dedicated to Sveta's birthday. And as usual everything was very sweet and family like: they gave her the present, sang a birthday song, we ate a birday cake with a word "Svet" written on it, then we swinged on a broken swing, and Irina teached Omr "kalinka-malinka" sond and a dance smth like "prisyadka"

17 April, Monday
Sveta's birthday. Though I wasn't very imaginative, i wanted to make smth pleasant 4 my dear friend, so I prepared a breakfast 4 her and served it in bed. In the Language Centre Fernaz baked a cake, Emil and Alexander presented her with a Pablo Cohelio's book "11 minutes", everybody even tried to sing a happy birthday song. But anyway all this was kinda boring and very simple. I think that Sveta's worth a better party, that's why she was in really bad mood. The rest of the day we spend as usual...

16 April, Sunday
Once again were making a lot of fun during the listening class. Were imagining ourselves DJs on the radio and send Irina "Hello" from her granny in New Zealand, she order Elvis Presley's "Love me tender" and Svetlana & me send it on ourselves (don't try to find any sense in this cause we were just kidding).
After traditional daily rituals (dinner, gym) went to the sweets shop and from there Alex picked us up and we went to their appartment: smoked kallian, chatted, drank tea, watched some funny ads (like "No4' pojirateley reklani", duda daje popala nawa relkama snikersa, kogda mujik telke v popu zubami vtseplyaetsya, i pro to kak babki vo dvore hip-hop tantsuiut). Then they drived us home. Meanwhile Iraina was in Mekka Mall searching 4 a birthday gift 4 Sveta.

15 April, Saturday
An excursion to the Dead Sea with all the guys from the university. There were really a lot of people that wanted to go, and though we were going there on a big bus there were still a few guys that had to stand during the whole way cause there was no free seats for them. On our way Sveta and me were readind a book about the persons features and their connection with his character, and were observing our faces and the faces of our neighbours.
Hardly have we arrived when a Ukranian girls got undressed on the beach and then disappeared haven taken with her 3 other guys (later we came to know that she had had enough time to make a scandal because one man was making pictures of her, so she hit him, and there was almost a fight between them. Then they took the money that they payed 4 the ticket and left 4 another beach).
We had had everything in a more peaceful way. Though Sveta and me went to the men's part of the beach having caused a crazy reactioin from the men. We were lucky to escape from that place and went to swim. Then we put some mud on our bodies and stayed under the sun enjoying ourselves. The most funny thing was to wash this mud off. The natives very very surprized to see 3 girls in bikini that were helping each other to wash off the mud from different places of their bodies. We decided not to pay attention to them staring at us and went to get sun tanned.
We wanted to go to swin once again but the sea was a bit stormy and that was rather dangerous cause that extremely salty water could get into ur eyes easily. We were running along the beach throwing mud in each other and suddenly Sweta stepped on the glass and injured her leg...
At 4 p.m. everybody was ready to leave, but nobody knew where Dasha and the company were, so we can't leave without them. Moreover our bus also disapperead somewhere, but when it finally came and we were on our way back, Dasha called so we had to return back to pick them...

14 April, Friday
Having has a breakfast in our favourite restraunt i went to the family. Omr went to Aquaba with his classmates that why our group consisted only of Papa, Mama, Aseel and me. Though the day was awfully hot we went to some friends of theirs that live in one of the villages near Amman. Even by now I can't understand the aim of our going there(perhaps there wasn't any at all), cause we spent there about an hour sitting in front of the house, making pictures of me with every member of the family and running after the sheeps that were trying to escape us. A thing that seemed very strange to me is that on the contrast to Russian villages houses in the arabic ones stand isolated and rather far from each other.
On our way home, Papa stopped to buy some sheep meet and we spent there about 2 hours waiting for the meet to be cooked. We came home only around 7 and after a family dinner ther drove me home.
In the evening Sveta and I had nothing to do so we wanted Romanians to invite us, but we dicided not to be too pushy and send Alex an sms saying that we were comming but as if it was adressed to someone else.He called back and told Svetlana that she confused the number, unfortunately the didn't understand the hint and as a result didn't invite us.... Our great plan failed.... Perhaps if u want smth maybe sometimes it's better to be straightforward???

13 April, Thursday
Exam with Muna in the morning, this one was not so easy and it was really tiresome and long. Sveta and me decided that we were quite worn out and out of shape after it so we permitted ourselves to skip a class with Dr. khalid. We returned back by the end of the class and went to the canteen with the others. After lunch i met William cause the wrote me in the sms a day before yesterday that he needed to talk to smb. He spoke of neverending problems with his father in Kameroon, that he was followed by some man who wanted to kill him because of some political reason. He said that he wanted of get a potitical asylum in France but that procedure was also wvery difficult and took a lot of time. Having finished his speech he accused me of an indifferent gaze as if I were bored, and then he left.
After the gym we met with Fadi and a friend of his. Sweta and me can't help laughing on a weird figure of his cause his head seemed to be as wide as the rest of the body... On the whole it all looked as if he had a head of another person glued on his shoulders. We ate some ice-crem in Abdoon, then sat 4 a while in Books@ and they took us home

12 April, Tuesday
Today there was another exam with Dr. Khalid. But it was so easy that more than a half of our group coped with it within an hour. That's why we decided to go togather to the Yemeni Restaunt. We have never been there before but Fernaz (Australia) kept praising it so we had to see it with our oun eyes. However I should say that this place didn't meet with my expectations. The nice thing about it was that we all were sitting on the floor close from each other, but as for the food - everything seemed to be very starnge to my taste, but 4 the bread - it was realy delicious and crispy. All in all I can't say that I liked this place moreover only gaing to the gym saved me from this awful feeling og heaviness in my stomach.
After the gym we went to the Turkish party, where ate a lot of their traditional sweets (they awere really worth it). Then we went 4 a supper in our restraunt that's why I thought that I was going 2 die of overeating that evening.

April, Tuesday
This day happened to be a day-off because it was a Profit's day. In the morning Svetlana and me went to have a breakfast in one of the restraunts near our uni. We managed to breakfast almost free of charge cause in too of the places that we visited they gave us everything for free.
Today we were invited to visit the family of our teacher in Moscow (Vael - if u know him). So we arranged to meet with Andrey and Hussein (Vael's nephew) around 1 p.m. However we managed to be late 4 an hour and after that spent about an hour in the bus waiting 4 it to be full and go.
Finally we reached the house of Vail's family situated in the surroundings of Amman that seemed to be very modest. Besides Mom and Dad there also were Vael's Sister, her son and another nephew.
We were offered a traditional arabic dinner that consisted of rice. chiken and salad (people in Jordan aren't afraid of Chiken flew though there were some death cases here). After the dinner we took part in some kinda political debates. Vael's father knows a lot about politics and economics in the whole world even in Russia. He knows all Russian ministers of whom i have never heard about, that's why the conversation apperead to be very interesting.
We dad our tea with knafa, and Vael's brother took us home. On our way he asked Andrey: How's Jordan??? Have you already tried a n arabic girl??? Andrey confused and pretended not to understand. But we used to joke on him after that: Come on Andrey, At least u've come to Jordan u have to try an Arabic girl.

10 April, Monday
Today I was a kinda curly orange cause i curled my hair and was wearing everythin orange that day. And everybody seemed to lioke my new look.
We were having dinner in a big company as always , but by the time when Romanians joined us Aseel called me and asked to pick her up by the main gate (she came to see our uni). I picked her and brought her back to the restraunt where we took the girls and went 4 a small walk around the uni. We bought some ice-cream and coffee and had a chat on the bench. Everybody was feeling not some kinda tension and discimform: Aseel - because a lot of people around were staring at us, and we - cause we understood that she was uncomfortable. Girls left 4 the internet and I went to show Aseel our room in the dorm. Then we went to the Language Centre where she was to meet her cousine that was studying on the literature faculty. When I saw her a couldn't say a word, I was so much astonished by her looks. I can't even imagime that an arabic girl could be dressed in A Dead Metal style. Ileft them and went to the gym, after we had a dinner and in the evening Sweta and me made a Romantic party with fruits, candles and massage.

9 April, Sunday
I took a public bus in the morning in order to get to school, it was very funny though I had to make a long way till i was able to get it.
During the second class we had a listening exam and it was also very easy so we finished much earlier. After the dinner I had to meet the taxi driver cause I primised him. And I hate myself for this damn habit to stick to my promises. All the tme that I spend with him I was feeling some kinda disgust and despise. He took me to some fast food and tried to feed me with some staff from there, fortunatelly i was strong enough to refuse and ate only the ice-cream that he bought me in our way back (but it was really worth it). On the whole i can say that I haven't felt so uncomfortable 4 a long time.
We went to the gym and did too much excercises cause Ali was absent and there was nobody to stop us.
In the evening the same scheme (restraunt-mall-home)

8 April, Saturday
Though it was really difficult 4 us to wake up we managed to do it, cause we had to get in the dorm before the excursion to have a change. They took us to Umm Kais today though we have already been there. We thought that perhaps they'll show us smth new that we haven't seen, but unfortunatelly there was nothing more to be surprised by. I was talking to the black guy William on our way back and he was talking all kinda nonsence as always.
After the excursion Andrey and I went to the family where he surprised everybody by his perfect arabic. Had tea, talks and then andrey left.
Aseelk and me had a small walk, then we did Maen's homework, watched "Hitch's method" and went to bed.

7 April, Saturday
I woke up cause i was freezing. And when I got up I saw the apartment in ruins after the party. Unfortunately they ran out of water that's why i can't even remove those evidences that i left in the wc. In order to be al least a bit usefull to the guys I decided to collect all the bottles left in every corner of the flat. But the strongest desire of that moment was to get awat from that place, unfortunately i can't find my jacket and my bag with my cell and keys from the dorm. All the rest woke up and they helped me to find my things, actually everything was lying in the bed where i slept by I somehow didn't notice it.
I called Svetlana (Irina and her spent the night at the Romanians), I wanted to join them but she didn't know the way to that place and couldn't explain it 2 me.
When I was on my way to the dorm Emil called and suggested to pick me up. Emil was really great that day, he made a breakfast and was doing his best to make us comfortable. Then Alex woke up and joined us. We were watching TV and discussing the previous evening. Then we went to the dorm having made an appointment to dine together in the evening. As soon as we reached the dorm we fell asleep and were sleeping till the evining. Then we had a shower and met with Romanians (Irina prefered to spend her time with Majdi, so Swetlana and me wnt on our own.) We had quite a nice dinner in the place called "Al Kuds" in the city centre. After that we bought some sweets and went back to the Romanian's place where we spend the evening talking, joking, laughing, drinking and smokin callian.

6 April, Thursday
All of us got very tired by the end of the week and though Our professor Muna tried to do her best cheering us up it was absolutely useless.
By the way we have a very nice news, we've finally received our residence, so now we r in Jordan on legal turms. On this occasion Andrew bought sweets that we ate during dinner.
Today we had shopping and gym in our agenda, but taking into consideration the fact that we were invited to the party tonight we had to sacrifice the gym :)
That's why after dinner we went to Jabal Al Hussein and spend there a great deal of time, we seemed to have foegotten about time, and when we finally reached home there was only 1 hour left so we were getting prepared in a real rush.
We met Andrey cause he was to show us the way to the house where the party was. But then we dicided that it was not proper to come to a party barehanded, so we went to Gardens where we bought some beer and returned. When we came there wasn't still much people at the party. And actually we didn't know all of them so we decided to start drinking to feel more relaxed and then started dancing. After that Romanians and Italians came and we went to the kitchen where got completely loaded having drank everything that we saw... (vodka, wiski, some pink liquid) All that was happening after was in a kinda fog 4 me. I did a bit of dancing then we went outside with the guy who aws the owner of this appartment. But when we returned someting really strange hapened... Me roof was completely blown off. After spending some time in the wc (i won't get into details tellin what i have been doing there) i slept in the armchair with some frozen broccoli on my head (Sveta's idea to revive me). After that i was carried to a bed where i slept soundly and the rest of the party was without my participation. The only thing that I have heard while sleeping was smb playing the guitar and singing...

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