Written by Maria Farnan, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language Spring 2019 “The limits of my language means the limits of my world” – Ludwig Wittgenstein There is nothing more beautiful or humbling than a conversation with a friend, or maybe […]
Photos by Syeda Siddiqi, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Internship, Spring 2019
Written by Cecilia Beard, (UNC Chapel Hill) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language, Spring 2019 5:00AM – Wake up. (Yeah, it’s a little wild, but I like the mornings a lot and it’s when I’m most productive.) 5:30AM – Make […]
Written by Rob Sanford, (American University) Student Correspondent CET Jordan: Intensive Language, Spring 2019 There’s an old saying, he said, about how the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home to write a […]
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 […]
