Monday, June 15, 2009

feels like home now

Today.

One day after a weekend where I met about 50 extraordinary people I'll be working with throughout the year, where I challenged myself and had interesting, hilarious, touching and also random talks, where I slept less hours and lived more intensely, where I got up on the roof and saw the sun rising while around people were speaking in Arabic and still I could get a sense of what they were saying, where I felt inspired and proud.

It had to be today and i couldn't delay the blog for any longer. Because today, or right after the conference to be more exactly, when i couldn't sleep but then I landed in my bed until the next day, because now I feel that I'm at home. I'll have a Jordanian heart and soul from now on and it probably won't vanish even after I leave.

So this is not the best intro to this blog but it's the most immediate message I had to tell. Later on, I promise to tell more, like where I'm staying, what I'm doing exactly, what I eat and what do I do in the meantime. But that's not the most important now. The main thing is that I'm home now, in Amman, Jordan.

2 comments:

  1. Ola, salaam,
    Good idea, the blog. Hope that everything is ok with you. Temos saudades tuas!Bjinhos,Mam

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  2. Claudia,
    I liked this post very much! I even could picture everything you so briefly described here; and also I am so much happy for your natural feelings-yep, feeling like home in another culturally different environment from what you are used to - I call it a huuuge emotional and mental maturity! Bravo! Keep the rhythm!
    Hugs from the heart of the Baltics, Riga, Latvia :)
    Assel

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