Through my sister's eyes!

These are photos taken by my lovely sister Aicha while strolling around her new territory as a freshman at JU.... The naming is hers too...
Brilliant Aichoka... =)

Through It All

Fun Under The Sun

Down To Earth

Colorful

A Day's Shot

My favorite one is the cat under the sun... what about you?

Stand In LINE!

It has been a common scene for me... to be standing waiting for a taxi in the Ammani morning rush... finding other waiting as well... I try my best to make sure that those who were there before me... get in a taxi before me... I form a hidden line and wait until my turn comes to grab a taxi... and sometimes the waiting goes for too long!
But then... out of no where... a young lady swaying with her high heels break the line... stretch out her nail polished arm and grab a taxi.. and for some reason... she gets a taxi... And as she goes into the taxi... I imagine myself... going after her... pulling her out of the taxi from her "bil5wa" straightened hair and yelling "STAND IN LINE WOMAN"...
But as I laugh inside myself... I breath in... I breath out... and keep on waiting in my own made line[s]....

GOOD MORNING AMMAN!

The Promised Land : 1

As the plane was landing on the lands so far away from everything I grew up around, I had an ecstatic feeling... this is it... the mighty USA... the promised land... this is it... the country whose capitalistic ideals I'm against... this is it... the real experience that I worked very hard to attain...
I'm there... away from my family and from everything comfortable... starting a journey with 20 other strangers...
At some points it felt as if I'm stepping into my TV screen... where all the scenes that I used to see are becoming alive with one addition... me within...
At some points all my prejudices have been proven right... where I was confronted with consumerism... the American arrogance and disdain toward the rest of the world...
And sometimes I met people who have high social conscious... and in rare cases interest in what is going outside the US.
I have seen Architecture that I long time past learned about... and finally I fully understood what is the meaning of architecture that changes people... and create spaces...
I have seen famous art pieces that I read and seen in books and the Internet... some of these pieces brought me to tears...

I was the odd one out with my veil... which made me question basis of my faith... and challenge my own set of beliefs... and I met people who made it even harder... and some who made it more challenging... =P

I went back to the home within me so many times... I can't describe what it feels to be home again...

I have changed and grown during the three weeks I spent scampering USA from East to West visiting 6 states and 7 cities... being in transit all the time... waiting and wondering what will come next... it was a very enjoyable time...


So... now... after I'm back in Amman... to my family and my work... my self is still in transit as always... as ever...

I'll be blogging in more details about these three weeks under this ironic name of "The Promised Land" which one of my friends I made during this trip used to mock the US...

Keep coming back... I have some good stuff and good photos to share...