Category Archives: Jordan

For an American kid, living abroad has its pros and cons.  Some of the cons include:  never going to a high school football game, not having typical American dating prospects, having to represent “America” when a kid doesn’t necessarily feel like a typical “American.”   Ex-pat kids have these challenges, and many more. However, thereContinue reading “Promo Guy”

The worst part of living abroad, without question, is applying to international schools.  I hate it!  Hate it!  Hate it!  Hate it! Here are three things I would rather do than international school applications: 1.  Brush my teeth in hot water for a month. 2.  Sleep with kittens licking my face all night. 3.  TripContinue reading “Feeling of Accomplishment”

We have been snowed-in for the past 5 days. It’s not that it has actually snowed all that much.  But Amman is a city of hills.  And when it snows, those hills turn to black ice, making it nearly impossible to get anywhere.  Things got bad enough over the weekend, that the government actually wentContinue reading “Snowed-in”

Cecily, our college daughter, came home to Jordan for Christmas.  She returns to the US this weekend and since she won’t return to Jordan before we leave here in June, she had a few things on her Bucket List to do before heading back to the Mother Land.  One of those things was to floatContinue reading “How to Do the Dead Sea On the Cheap”

1.  Cooked and cooked and cooked some more; followed by gorging and giving thanks with these fine people: And these slightly smaller, yet equally fine people: 2.  Spent a couple of days pretending to be the Queen of Sheba at the Marriott Dead Sea Spa and Resort: With this hottie footing the bill: 3.  SpentContinue reading “Three Things I Did This Week”

It’s official!  This morning, Jason received a handshake for our next post.  When we started the bidding process months ago, our possibilities looked like this: But slowly the possibilities shrunk down, and now we have a winner!  So, to review: We started here. Now we’re here. And next we’re headed here. Pretoria, South Africa.  TheContinue reading “Where in the World?”

A few years ago, I wrote a post entitled The ABC’s of Our Lives in Taiwan.  So to continue that tradition, I call this edition, The ABC’s of our lives in Jordan. A is for Amman and Arabs.  We have come to love them both. B is for Brown and Blue.  In Jordan, the skyContinue reading “The ABC’s of Our Lives in Jordan”