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A Diary: When it Snows in Amman...

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Worood: I don't feel like going to work today!

Ola: Get up! In Europe the snow grows this thick and they still go to work!

It turned out that we're not in Europe.

As we left home, some students at a nearby school where standing at the window, shouting their lungs out, snow can really bring out the rebel inside you! After freezing out waiting for a taxi, we finally got to our respective work places, and were told that we can go back home on the spot! I think now is the perfect time to wonder what was Graham Bill thinking when he invented that useless thing called telephone, not to mention mobiles! Who needs them? You can always get out of home when the city is freezing over, get to work and then ask if you can leave! Piece o'cake!

Now the ride from Jabal Amman to the 7th Circle was something. The taxi driver, who looked something around 20 years old, seemed quite inspired by the weather, too inspired that when the song "Layl w ra3d w bard w ree7" played on Fan FM he simply lifted his hands off the steering wheel and went on clapping! I was this close to start clapping along but you know...

It's funny how it took us about an hour to get from the 3rd circle to the 7th circle because of some snow (in normal days it takes about 5-8 minutes)... Then I had to get a ride to Marj Alhamam, who would go there after hearing the airport road is blocked? But thank God my brother and his friends were waiting in the car at the 7th circle, that's what friends are for, or to be more politically correct, that's what brother's friends are for!

You know the problem is not only in snow or in traffic accidents, it's also about people pulling over to watch the fender-bender (not a rare sight in Amman)... I fancied that the bulldozers were coming to shove the cars and people, not the snow!

It's really funny how life stands off when it snows in Amman, but looking at the silver lining: I'm now at home, blogging, thinking of making a cup of hot milk, watching a nice movie and reading a good book! The world outside can wait...

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On March, 15, 2007 2:05 PM , MQabbani said:

Snow :) i love snow ..

On March, 15, 2007 2:13 PM , 7usam
from Egypt said:

ما شاء الله و تلج عن جد
راحت علي هي السنة

On March, 16, 2007 3:51 AM , Abed Hamdan
from Jordan said:

BAKRAH EL WINTER .. BAKRAH EL SNOW

On March, 16, 2007 6:04 AM , Hala
from United States said:

LOOOL @ the taxi driver, this is the snow spirit :P

I really love snow, it is killing me tha I am not in Jordan :(

Happy snow day :D

On March, 16, 2007 6:21 PM , khawlah
from Saudi Arabia said:

ya ba5takoooom!!!

On March, 17, 2007 10:52 AM , Khaled
from Jordan said:

I will never forget this day as I was obligated to come to work from irbid to find that I'm the only one in work, and those living in amman didn't come!
And I had a great arguments with the bossES :-/

On March, 17, 2007 5:49 PM , ola
from Jordan said:

LOL@ you all :D kan yom mawaqef to7af jad!

On March, 17, 2007 8:15 PM , Maioush
from United States said:

My god Ola.. I really miss snow in Jordan… you guys are lucky :D
With all the things that comes with it I still enjoy it.. I got stuck at my university until 8OM and had to walk from “dowar el jam3a” all the way to “da7eyat al rasheed” cuz our car was stuck, there was no way to move it, and I was wearing a very light shoes.. the first thing I did when I got home… I cried :D .. yep.. cried :D … but the next day I went out playing hehehe
Have fun dear :)

On March, 18, 2007 11:50 AM , Bara2
from Jordan said:

that day i thought that i had to go to uni .. i didn't want to get out my bed kal3ada .. but i heard my two sisters talking outside about the snow .. i went to the window and i was like: el7amdeelah .. akeed el jbeha hala msakra ... i turned to my bed and i fell asleep againe..
that was too stupid mne .. mafe after 5 min i realized that it is really snowing .. so 2omet w sa7sa7et ... w estaw3abet el wade3 .. and i spent that day watching the snow when it falls down .. LOOOOL that was too great..
if i were u .. i would cry beno9 el6aree2 ...BDE ARAWE7 ..

On March, 19, 2007 11:25 AM , dee & roo
from Jordan said:

WOOOOOWWW!!! It was a wonderful day really! Even though I don’t like the feeling when I have to keep asking myself whether to go to work or Atannish elmawdoo3! bs off course the whole concept of having a street that is covered with snow outside is really cool!! W lessa fe Kaman saba3 taljat kbar fe 2athar (march!!) NICE!!! :):):)

On March, 25, 2007 3:10 PM , Rula
from Jordan said:

I know it's too late reading and commenting on this post, but it's better late than never, right?

3an jad da7aktini 3ala el taxi driver, i felt inno "welcome to jordan".

Was a nice peaceful day in deed :-)

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