The Holiday of Sacrafice begins Thursday night. What this means for me is a 10 day break from class before we come back and finish the last week of the semester and take our final exams. According to Islamic tradition, Abraham was commanded by God to sacrafice his son Ishmael, but at the last moment God had Abraham sacrafice a lamb that was caught in a nearby bush. So, in short a lot of unlucky lambs will be sacraficed in the coming week to commemorate this event and most everything in the country will be closed for four days while people visit with family and eat delicious lamb.
Luckily for us Americans who are living here, the supermarkets have turkeys, Butterball turkeys no less! The sign above the frozen turkeys reads, "imported just for you." How cool is that? So, Mel is going to cook her second Thanksgiving dinner in a couple of days and we are planning to have a couple of girls from class over. We've also seen plenty of Christmas stuff here so we plan to get a small artificial tree in the coming week or two.
We plan to do a lot of relaxing and take a trip to Petra and possibly some other quick trips within Jordan. Classes are going well, but I must admit that I am burnt out at the moment and need a break. Luckily, it will begin in less than 24 hours.
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