Some more week days

Okay I forget a lot of what I have been up to for the last few days, except for yesterday, so I'll do my best to piece it together. Sunday I was 1.5 movies; Alex's birthday wish, to see WALL-E, came together partially, as we went to see it but a large portion of the middle of the movie was missing. So we did our best to convey to the theatre manager what had happened and we ended up getting passes to see another movie later on. I am happy to report though that the parts we did see were quite good. Afterwards I met my language partner to watch a movie in Arabic, Captain Hemo (translation, hemo is a name). I did not understand a lot of the dialogue, and it wasn't a particullarly good movie, but I still enjoyed it. The strangest thing was that, as with a lot of Arabic movies, there are what amount to music videos inserted into the film featuring the actors, during one of which the entire theatre began clapping along to the music. I have never seen anything like that before.

Monday was boring, with no interesting stories to relate.
Tuesday was similar to Monday.
Wednesday too.

Oh but Barack Obama came and left over those few days. Thursday we went to Petra, which is one of the new seven wonders of the world. The older ancient world wonders list is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World and then the new list is here: http://www.new7wonders.com/classic/en/n7w/results/. We took a bus right after class down to Petra where there wasn't a whole lot to do besides walking around and looking at everything, and also climbing up some big rocks like we did at Wadi Rum. That said, I have pictures! It was a challenge with a broken zoom, but what makes this place so amazing is that everything there is huge. Oh and also the third Indiana Jones (and the Last Crusade) was filmed here. For the history of Petra, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra. We did a night program there too before heading back to Amman, pictures/video of which I might be able to apprehend from some of the other people here.