15 Days To Go

So in case you hadn't heard I am going to Amman, Jordan with the BYU College of Nursing for our "Global Health and Human Diversity" class.

There are 7 students going, one graduate student who will be our clinical instructor, and then our director who currently lives over there.

We will be working in the University hospital along side students in their nursing program. We've have had the assignment to email our students (each of us have 2) and I finally got a response today. Let's just say I don't think their English is as fluent as we were led to believe, but she "wellcom in jordan" to me and "hopes helping [me] as much as [she] can" so that is promising. I can't really complain though because I'm sure their English is going to be much better than my Arabic. On the weekends (which I am confused about exactly when that is because Fridays are Sundays and Sundays are Mondays, or something like that) we will be taking trips to different sites. I know that we are going to Petra, the Red and Dead Seas, the Wadi Rum desert, some crusaders castles, Jesus' baptismal site in the Jordan river, a lot of other places, and hopefully we will be able to make a trip over to Israel and see some of the sites there. She has warned us that we probably won't get much sleep because we will be so busy, which I think is a good thing.

We take off April 30th and I'm not quite ready yet. Our director told us that we have to be very modest while we are over there which you would think would be easy seeing as we are already considered pretty modest compared to other people, but apparently not. We have to have at least 3/4 sleeves at all times, shirts that cover your chest (none of this shade tank stuff, it's got to be all the way covered, like t-shirt covered), skirts to at least 6in below the knee, and she suggested that our clothes should be a size larger that our regular size. Mind you it is also going to be like 90 degrees (I think). Needless to say I have some shopping to do.

Well I will try to keep you updated on my prep work for the trip before I leave (probably after finals are over), and stay tuned for future adventures.