Written by Tomas Gordo-Churchill (Northwestern University), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Spring 2023 By this point in the study abroad experience, after four weeks in the intensive learning environment of CET, your language ability will have increased more than you ever could imagine in the US. You will actually be speaking Arabic, one of the most difficult languages […]
Trusting the Language Pledge
Written by Asher Wexler (UNC Chapel Hill), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Spring 2023 Ten in the morning in a crowded conference room. Aerosolized nescafe, assorted teas, and zaatar manaqish saturate the heated air and stimulate the olfactory system. The click of computer keys and colliding fingertips, a sense of dread and excitement simultaneously. It’s hard to believe that all […]
The Smallest World Cup
Written by Asher Wexler (UNC Chapel Hill), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Spring 2023 An American youth is going for a run in Amman. He stumbles over an assortment of concrete obstacles – cracked sidewalks, cinder block walls, a sandy construction site, a pedestrian bridge over a busy highway – wearing a battered-looking soccer jersey with the […]
The Risk and the Reward in Amman, Jordan
Written by Tomas Gordo-Churchill (Northwestern University), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Spring 2023 After two weeks in Jordan, I never thought my biggest test would be outside the classroom. The act of relocating to a completely different place, with unfamiliar customs and a language I could barely speak, was more of a test than my attempts at the […]
Everything’s fine (كل شيء تمام) in Amman, Jordan
Written by Sarah Holston (American University), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Spring 2023 As I start my third week in Jordan, there’s one phrase that I’ve heard again and again at restaurants and conversations, but only understood it when my professor covered it in class كل شيء تمام (Everything’s fine). I say it when someone asks me how […]
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things…
Photos by Emily Griffith, (University of Missouri), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Fall 2022. These girls are truly what has gotten me through this semester.