Bridging the cultural divide between the West and the Middle East. Saturday, July 11, 2009. Six weeks and counting now until my triumphal return home. Looking forward to catching up with friends and family. Still much more to discuss. Monday, May 25, 2009. Happy Memorial Day Weekend to all! So for the first time.

Turns out I stopped updating this for even longer than I thought. We started travelling on weekends more and I started spending my computer time avoiding homework instead of blogging. We went to Wadi Rum. The night sky at Wadi Ram is gorgeous. You can see the milky way! Our Jor.

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Ich bin Flicken, ja! Traditional Islam, food, guns, camping, grammar, Canadianna, Arabic, stuff. Friday, January 01, 2016. , a poem that has undergone takhmees. Where a-x, b-x, and c-x are the original verses of the poem consisting of two hemistiches each. The individual letters are individual hemistiches matching the rhyme of the first hemistich of the original.

Sunday, August 3, 2008. If I had to mention a fruit that descended from paradise I would say this is it because the paradisiacal fruits do not have pits. Summer means fruit in Jordan. I am literally able to pick fruit as I walk down the street, hanging from the branch of a simple fig. Tree growing off the side of the road. Monday, July 28, 2008.

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