Moving in
There is some defining elements of the ex-pats’ life, however, since I still maintain the student-like life style, I will not enjoy all of them. Yet, the expat-style accommodation will be one of the elements I will indeed enjoy during my stay in Jordan. After some mulling about how to find a place to live and were should I find it, we (with my flatmate) we decided to do things jordan-way…this is, heading out, walking in the street and asking people “merhaba, do you know some place to rent?” it looks silly, in some European countries they will even think you are insane, but here, where street relations are on the top of life-style, things can work out. Here street life is extremely important; the weather is hot, and people go out to the street to cold down with a bit of fresh wind and hot tea (surprisingly, hot tea works pretty well). Relations, both informal and formal, are done in that way, in a more friendly and hospitality way than in the Western world. So we did, and we got a flat, from some man in a tiny street shop how called someone. Now the man of the shop smile to us all the mornings and ask us how are we…He actually spend almost the whole day in the same plastic-chair under the shadow of the same tree…just moving along the shadow.
The flat is, well, wonderful, cheap and huge. Usually a student (a normal one) does not have the opportunity to enjoy space, commodities and affordable prices at the same time; luckily, in Amman that is possible and it probably worths to live like that two months, not enough time to get used to some luxuries but still time enough to enjoy it.
