After the action-packed day in downtown Amman yesterday, we thankfully got to sleep in because it is Friday, the first day of the weekend in the Arab world. After I woke up, I worked on my Ikteshaf Project, which is an oral presentation in Arabic on a topic relating to the Arab world that we build on and present each week. My topic is Arab Cities and I plan on talking about Amman, Cairo, Damascus, Mecca and Beirut. Soon after we had lunch, we headed out to As-Salt (السالط), whose name came from the Roman time when it was called Saltus. Besides being a beautiful city, it was known for it's especially peaceful coexistence (and even constructively working together) between the Muslims and Christians of the city. The neighboring mosques and churches shared resources and Muslims and Christians lived as neighbors, unlike other cities in which there are distinct Muslim and Christian areas. We also got to see our assistant RD dressed in the traditional Bedouin clothing, which included 10 meters of heavy fabric. The local old men taught us how to play mancala and we walked through the densely populated markets selling everything from clothes to brooms to freshly made pancakes.
It was a beautiful city and a beautiful day!
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Alefiyah
7/8/2016 12:41:19 pm
Hey Sophia. The pictures that you took were absolutely gorgeous:) Keep up the awesome work!!!
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We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. !أهلا و ساهلاHi! I'm Sophia, a high schooler from the San Francisco Bay Area. I received a scholarship through the State Dept. to study Arabic in Jordan in the summer of 2016. Categories
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