Chilly Friday

So in Amman Friday is the beginning of the weekend. Friday and Saturday are weekends and then classes and work start on Sunday. On Fridays most of the stores are closed except for stores that sell food. There aren't many grocery stores or supermarkets like in America. The neighborhoods have individual stores for specific food- one for meat, one for dairy, one for produce, etc.
I went to bed last night at 10pm which is the earliest I've gone to sleep in a long, long time. Surprisingly, once my feet warmed up, I didn't have trouble sleeping. And magically this morning I woke up at 9am and was wide awake. Amman is giving my sleeping schedule and Circadian rhythm a makeover! Around 10am, my host mom, sisters and I went to visit my host mom's sisters and mother. On the way we stopped by some stores to pick up bread (hubas) and hummus for breakfast. The grandma's house was in downtown Jordan. We had breakfast there which was followed by coffee. Coffee here is different from American coffee- it's more like espresso with lots of sugar and lots of drudge on the bottom. I'm not a coffee fan but I made my way through it. Once you get to the bottom, you pour out the drudge and let some dry in the bottom of the cup. Once it dries, you can "read your fortune" in the cup. The aunt read mine and she had quite a lot to say. According to the aunt, I had left a boy in the states that I think about a lot and they think about me. They're tall and have a cute baby face but it's a nice face. (I'm not sure who exactly this is that I'm supposidly thinking about) I have a lot of things that make me sad and I think about these things a lot. (Not sure where this came from considering I think of myself as a fairly happy person) And I will have a good economic standing in the future (I will have money) and this will be because of my career not because I marry into money. So I wouldn't say this was overly accurate but it was still interesting to hear. Maybe if we go back next weekend my fortune will be totally different.