Jordan!!!

So a few days ago we got back from Jordan! I absolutely loved going and seeing what there was to see there! Jordan was one of my favorite places ever! Petra was incredible! I dont have a ton of patience to write today so I am going to insert a part of the email that I sent my family after I got home from Jordan! Then I will put pictures up!

Well, lets see… my life the past few bits. First off I have a new favorite song lauren and Michaela and actually I think everyone would like it… its called clockwatching by Jason mraz. Love it. Anyway… I left to Jordan Monday morning very early. We hung out that day and saw a few things like Mt. Nebo and such, and then we went to our hotel and got Turkish baths… wow… that is a story I can really only tell you the full detail in person.. be excited for the explanation haha. Then I just went to bed. We woke up and left at like 6:30 in the morning to go to Petra. Wow is all that I can say about this place. I had no idea that it was going to be that cool. Honestly, WAY cooler than the pyramids and Jordan is a much more fun country than Egypt. Like Egypt was cool, but I was just anxious and paranoid the whole time, things in Jordan were a lot safer, cleaner, and the culture was just more fun. Petra was truly an incredible experience, although it costs more than Disneyland does for a ticket! Freakin nuts huh?! But when you guys do come to Israel, hopefully ill be with you ;) but Jordan is a must. That night Karlee, Ricki, Kate, and I went and just walked around Amman, the capital city, which we had driven to earlier that day right after Petra. The next day we went to a Roman town by Amman called Jerash and walked around and then saw some gladiator, chariot races and random weird things but it was pretty fun! Then that night a group of us went to the Mecca Mall which is this huge mall in Amman, but its not really a touristy place so it was fun because it was a legitimate Muslim Arab mall, I loved it. We had so much fun, I haven’t laughed that hard in a really really long time. Then Thursday we woke up, saw a few random sites, but by that point we were all so done with site seeing that most of us were zoned out completely the only thing that I really paid attention to that day was the baptisimal site on the Jordan river, which isn’t really the site, but whatever.You cant get too much closer to where the site would have actually probably been because it is in war territory haha. But ya, it only took us 2 ½ hours or so to cross the border which was really nice and then we got back and I love being back at the center! Haha It really does feel like home which is really nice. It is just home living with 78 of your best friends having everything pretty much taken care of for you. I love the feeling of living the easy life waking up, having breakfast ready, not needing to really get ready, walking 10 steps to class, 10 steps to the next class, lunch is ready for you, then you can hang out in your room or in any of the hang out rooms, and then dinner is ready for us, and then we hang out, we have a gym in the building and a library, and it just makes life great when you can stay in this building for weeks without leaving and everything you could ever need would be here.

the pictures: first one:my best friend here Karlee and I showing our attitudes towards shopping in an alcove that was once a shop... shes excited, im bored out of my mind

second one: me, judd, karlee, nate

third one: jake, me, and nate and kate at a mosque where i had to wear that robe :)

fourth one:is of my friend ramzi and i in front of the monastary at Petra where he surprised me with a kiss haha