Hey the weather actually does change!

All of my NC people have been talking about 40degrees and less, and rain (oh what I would give). I remember hating it too, but trust me, 85-90 in late September without rain is not that much fun either... BUT the last few days have actually cooled off. Relatively, lemme check my Celsius to Fahrenheit chart.... so as far as I can tell it has been a pretty steady 30C (86F (the f is for freedom))since I got here. With highs around 33C (91.4F). But the last few days have cooled down to, I dunno 27ish C (80.6F).

"Yeah but it's the dry heat (Bill Paxton in "Aliens" for you non-nerds)!"

And then... for only the second time since I got here... three days in a row... BOOM!

Look, clouds!

On Friday it looked AND smelled like rain. I made sure to stay outside or at least close to a window just in case and eventually... nothing happened. But apparently it rained in Jabal Amman around 6th circle because that's all my Firsties talked about for the first half-hour of class.

On Sunday we went back to City Mall and I made a crucial purchase, booyah!:

Alhumdillah! We're gonna eat tonight!

Also note the water cooler, another crucial purchase made way earlier (don't drink the tap water dunce). I made a phone call to my parents outside while my friends went to pinkberry and I SWEAR I felt a drop of rain. Nobody believed me though... could've been some AC coolant I guess.

Then I taught for a couple days, woke up this morning, and saw this:

Yeah that's a dust storm.

When I first got here I wondered where all this dust came from, guess I know now. Apparently it's not that common, but it will last a few days. Time to close those windows!

To get to work I have to cross the main intersection of Jabal Webdeh and Jabal Amman. People stop around to chill, pee, whatever, but I had to snap a pic of this cab driver:

When it's time, it's time...

alright, to finish up I saw some better street art (more to come):

and a cat:

sorry it's so fuzzy