"de-jaaj"

Note: United Airlines sucks. My flight did get delayed. And the airline did lose my baggage. Thanks guys!

I arrived in Amman in the middle of the night, so the first daylight view I got was looking out my hotel window. Best view ever.


This is especially great because the word "de-jaaj" (chicken) is one of the first words you learn in Arabic, which I always thought was super random. And then I get here and see this. So it maybe explains why the Arabic textbook authors think the word for chicken is need to know vocab.

I want to write more, but I can't seem to form sentences right now. Sleeping has not been easy. I went to bed around 10pm last night, but woke up at 3am and couldn't fall back asleep. I finally gave up at 5:30 - took a shower and now I'm here. I feel exhausted, but completely wired at the same time. And it's not like I can just nap whenever. I have a full schedule. More orientation presentations this morning, and we move to our apartments this afternoon. Then tomorrow morning I have my Arabic placement exam at 8:30am . . . etc., etc., etc.