Over the wall

I’ve found it hard to know how to continue this blog, whether as a random collection of my thoughts or as more of an outside perspective into my time away from Carolina, and rather busier than expected has made it easy for me to delay posting. Still, I’ve rediscovered my camera from under my UNC [...]

So what do you do?

I started work at Wilmerhale (a US law firm) on Monday – according to the telephone list, I’m a “summer student”, but I’m still not entirely sure what that means. So far, it looks like I’ll be divided between the paralegal people (think document support stuff: research, archiving, case file preparation) and the intern crowd [...]

Back in the warm

It was odd to be back at Christ’s Hospital (old school) last week, though hearing the National Anthem near the end of the end-of-term program turn out to be “God Save Our Gracious Queen… [et al]” certainly was a welcome change.
Wales was a welcome change to Jordan in many ways – everyone spoke English, for [...]

After hkj…

I’m currently camp-counselloring with a scout camp in deepest, darkest Wales… more photos will follow. More rain than the last six months at UNC, but the kids are friendly and speak English!

So long…

Coming back to Amman was an odd feeling, in that I knew I only had four days in Jordan. Going back to the foundation, the preschool, and the library. An Arab-Canadian lady and her two daughters (10 and 14) were interested in Ruwwad’s work and volunteering, and I ended explaining some of my experiences to [...]

Happenings

So much seems to have happened since I last posted, so many experiences, two of which seem to stand out.
…sleeping outside in Wadi Mussa, me, two colleagues, and a Bedouin friend called Abu Sagaar, who brought with him his Oud (think Bedouin traditional version of the Oud). The following day, he insisted I borrow his [...]