Written by Tomas Gordo-Churchill (Northwestern University), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Spring 2023 If you’re going to study in Jordan during Ramadan, this is the blog for you. There are a lot of questions you might have as a prospective student, such as: can you eat in public? How will I get my morning coffee? How can I […]
24 Hours in Petra and Wadi Rum
Written by Tomas Gordo-Churchill (Northwestern University), Student Correspondent for CET Jordan, Spring 2023 During your time in Jordan, there is one thing you will never forget (besides your Arabic hopefully), and that’s the class trip to Petra and Wadi Rum, the most iconic sites Jordan has to offer. People fly across the globe just to see the sheer […]
How to Make Friends and Attain Fluency with Others (Jordan Edition)
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 […]