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Well last night was the greatest breaking of the fast I have ever done. I went with a couple of guys that sit around the same shop I do and we all get along really well. It was nice to sit and have a great meal with the guys then we sat around for 4 hours afterwards drinking new tea on the hour. It seemed his wife just kept making it. Then after that the rest of us that weren’t family left and walked back home. As soon as we got out side we got a cup of coffee to drink mind you it is about 10:30. By now and we walked all the way back to the ballied and one of my friends said isn’t this great have a good meal then go for a walk and I thought to my self heck no I wanted to go to bed but now I got coffee in me we might as well go all night (go for a walk). pppppbbbbb no we had a good time I loved it. Then today a friend called me up and we went out after the (Iftar) the breaking of the fast for the day and drank coffee and sat out by the roman amphitheater. I still have not been in it though. Some day I guess I will go.

This week I realized a few things. For one I can now sit like an Arabic not the American sit. You know with one leg propped up on the other perpendicular to it. Well I can now sit as I see it like a lady. Now it took almost a year to stretch my legs to finally get them to do this but now I can.

And the other thing the reason nobody walks on the side walks is because they are so uneven it isn’t worth it after. I fought and fought trying to stay on the side walks thinking I would change their mindset or (culture). Ha! What was I thinking. I gave in and started walking on the road and it is a much nicer walk now.

Wow then again yesterday I went with the same guy as yesterday but this time we went to west Amman to a guys house. It was he and another young guy living there and they made fried chicken and French fries along with some other tings. It was good, we stayed late and I finally convinced them to let me go because I had school the next day.

Then today at school I knew it was going to be a bad day when I was asked to read the instructions they are in English and I struggled to read them.

Well yesterday was fun I went to the gym opened up, lifted a little, and then I got to break the fast with a guy. We went to his home and the family was embarrassed that all we had was rice and a stew but I loved it. We ate as soon as the guy started calling out we walked to his house and we got there right before it started. The streets out were he lives there literally was nobody out except the kids. All of the adults were inside eating and the kids ruled the streets. They don’t have to start fasting until they are about 7, 8, 9 this is the age were they start so it was interesting to see the kids play in the middle of a street that is usually packed. Then we sat around and just felt fat and sassy. After an hour we walked to another friend’s house and when we walked in the saloon it was as if they had smoked a pack of cigarettes in one hour in that room but I guess if you can’t smoke all day then you just have to smoke them all at night. We sat around till about 10:30 then I had to get a taxi home because they don’t have a bus out there so that was nice getting to do that.