Written by Rob Sanford (American University), Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Internship Spring 2019 Last Thursday, in the middle of my already arduous Arabic class, my teacher introduced me to my language partner. It wasn’t a complete surprise; a well-known aspect of the CET […]
Photos by Syeda Siddiqi, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Internship Spring 2019
Written by Cecilia Beard, (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language Spring 2019 Before coming to Amman, I’d been vegetarian for almost ten years. At the age of eleven, after coming home from a […]
Written by Maria Farnan, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language Spring 2019 I looked up from the ground and felt a rush of panic and embarrassment overcome my entire body. I anxiously reached down for my phone, as […]
Written by Madison Mauro, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language, Fall 2018 There’s a common saying in Jordan among friends: “يلا bye” (“Yalla Bye”). It’s not an easily translatable phrase. “يلا” means almost everything and nothing. It’s something […]
Written by Michaela Sharp, (Macalester College) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Internship, Fall 2018 Why am I studying abroad? In class one day practicing for our oral final, my teacher asked me why I had decided to study Arabic. Now, I […]
Written by Madison Mauro, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language, Fall 2018 For our second excursion with the program, we went olive picking. Donned with latex gloves, a bucket, and a designated team, we rushed into the field […]
Written by Micheala Sharp, (Macalester College) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Middle East Studies & Internship, Fall 2018 No boys allowed! No, seriously my internship at the NGO Reclaim Childhood is no boys allowed. Why? Well, I would be happy to tell […]
Photos by Hassan Almaala (University of Maryland) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language, Fall 2018
Written by Madison Mauro, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language, Fall 2018 They say there’s a learning curve in studying a language but I think it’s more like dangerous terrain peppered with mountains, hills, and plateaus. I’ve read a […]
