Greetings From Jordan!

Hello Everyone!

I HAVE ARRIVED! I am finally able to live up to the name of the blog! I am ABROAD! I am in Amman, Jordan, at a very nice hotel.  I just took a shower, and brushed my teeth, which feels wonderful.  Its 1230 pm and i will get to sleep soon, but I will describe my journey first.

Yesterday, Oct. 24,  my 14 people class got to the airport at 6 20ish, and I am in line to get my ticket and the woman takes my passport and I am just waiting and then she goes "This is an illegal passport."

My heart stops and I can't really breathe.  "What?"

"You didn't sign it.  If you had gone through without signing it and had gotten to Jordan, they would have thought this was an illegal passport and had you come right back, sweety." She says angrily.

She hands me a pen and I sign my name with shaking hands because I am both scared witless and pissed off beyond belief.  Clearly, if this woman went to college, she was a theatre major because there was absolutely NO REASON she had to be so friggin dramatic.  Really? It's my first passport, you need to relax! Holy cow.

Anyway, we go through security, wait around, play Toy Story 3 UNO, I make a million phone calls to my familia, and then we board at 915 pm.  We depart DC at 1020 because a woman started to barf real bad and she had to leave and they had to find her luggage in the bottom of the plane.  We are finally in the air for a 6 hour and 25 minute ride, and I don't freak out as much as I usually do.  I read a bit of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (HA! Mom, I am farther than you guaranteed! Unless you picked it up again and finished it....) then the lights went off because it was a later flight, and I watched Grown Ups, then ate my pasta dinner (I liked it, everyone else complained, I am just happy I was able to eat and didn't have to pay for it) and then Watched Toy Story three, and still cried.  I then skipped around Twilight episode 3 and finally got bored and watched an episode of Chuck.  Then my ears went berserk and I couldn't hear anything, except for my own voice in my head and that was annoying, they hurt soo MUCH!

Absolutely horrible picture that Phil took, but
that's me in Heathrow.  

We land and then I am in London! Yee! I walked through the airport and based on the number fine looking men there, I am determined to go to London for at least 3 months once I graduate.  I really want to go. I want to fall in love! But love can mean being in love with the city itself.  Oh dang. ANy takers? Want to go on a European tour? Please! It'll be super fun! I was also able to taste a shot of Hazelnut Baileys at the airport as I walked around. Not gonna lie, I think I will drink that when I get Stateside again.  Christmas gift to me? Yes.

Some Londonian men...yumm.

Anyway, then I nap on the seats waiting for the gates to open and then we board and because I am going 24 hours with no sleep, I fall asleep on the trip from London to Amman.  I fall asleep, but wake up and watch snippets of Robin Hood with Russel Crowe and watch the ending of Toy Story 3 again, all without sound because I don't want my ears to freak out again.  But they do any way.  I think it was being on the plane for another 6 hours! It was a long flight.  Then I change some money (yay, I have dinars now!-Jordanian currency) and then I have my first visa on my passport ever. Yay!  Then we take a bus ride to the Hotel and I fall asleep then single handedly remove all the luggage from the bus that we took because I am so annoyed with the two boys who were drunk in the group.  (they drank too much free alcohol and were absolutely making us all look bad. But maybe i'm just jealous that I didn't think to ask for any of the free alcohol).

Us on the bus after a day and some change of travel.

Now I am at the hotel, winding down and ready to sleep.  Waking up for my fist day in Jordan tomorrow!

Muchos besos a la familia! 

Paz.