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the semester is coming closer and closer to an end, and I am looking forward more and more to going home. I love it here, I really do. I have had a ton of fun so far and have made friends and settled into life here, but doing this without the people dearest to me SUCKS. If i could just take all of you and transplant you to Amman, I would never leave : )

I do have some great memories tho,

dancing at the campfire in wadi rum
climbing up a mountain to the monastery
arguing politics with drunken arabs
getting "baptized" in the Jordan river by the most jewish woman I know
reenacting the beheading of john the baptist
Staring at lake Tiberius
hearing something explode in the golan heights
my camel
alia's hair


im sure theres more that I could put here, but these are the ones that stand out so far. I cant wait to come back here. I really cant.

america's oddest laws

It's Against the Law to:
Fish while wearing pajamas in Chicago.
Sell instruments in South Carolina on Sunday.
Be drunk in a Wyoming mine.
Have a goatee in Boston.
Serve margarine in a Wisconsin restaurant unless the customer specifically requests it.
Eat a hamburger on Sunday in Minnesota.
Offer cigarettes and/or whiskey to zoo animals in Jersey.
Use a lasso to catch a fish in Tennessee.
Perform marriages in Pennsylvania when either the bride or groom is drunk.
Box a kangaroo in Oregon.
Shoot rabbits while motorboating in Kansas.
Sell milk in a liquor store in Indiana.
Wear masks in public in Alabama.
Have kisses lasting more than five minutes in Iowa.
Fall asleep in a South Dakota cheese factory.
Use profanity in front of a dead body in Georgia.
Keep a gorilla in the backseat of a car in Massachusetts.
Take a lion to the movies in Maryland.
Whistle underwater in West Virginia (same goes for Vermont).
Push a live moose out of a moving airplane in Alaska... it's also illegal to feed moose alcoholic beverages for the purposes of getting them on an airplane.
In Idaho, you may not fish on a camel's back.
Citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head.
In Georgia, you can't carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket if it is Sunday.
Donkeys can't sleep in bathtubs in Arizona.
Elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields in North Carolina

Most ridiculous British law: (as voted upon by Brits)

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament

2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down

3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store

4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day

5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter

6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet

7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen

8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing

9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour

10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow