Fridays are sacred in Muslim countries, shops are closed, people have the day off and it is the time to visit your relatives, have dinner with your family and so on…after the sacred friday, it is time to go out, shop around and enjoy the summer. In Amman things does not work exactly like that [...]
Archive for June 2008
Saturday life
June 28, 2008Part of the culture
June 23, 2008They say, and after some years traveling a bit around the world I say the same, that two things define a culture, its language and its food…and my ethnographic eye does not allow me to miss any of them now that I live in the Middle East. Today I register for an Arabic course here [...]
Far from the sky
June 22, 2008The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the earth, or in more romantic words, the farest point to the sky. It really doesn´t feel anything different than in any other place in the world, the sky is just up there pretty far and you breath without problems (well, the 45º can be a problem [...]
Work, life and grocery shopping
June 18, 2008Be in a foreign country has several difficulties when it comes to daily basis. Where can I buy stuff? where can I find a supermarket? In Europe this is not a big problem since almost in each corner you can find a place to buy stuff, but outside europe everything gets more difficult. Here in [...]
landing in Amman
June 17, 2008I am finally in the Middle East, in my hub, Amman but feeling rather in a broader region, Palestine is here, Israel is here, Iraq also has presence here and the bedouins, those without borders, also here. I took off three days ago from Madrid in a Royal Air Jordanian plane (Airbus 321 for plane-freaks) [...]
