family!

okay, so i'm done with my midterms and they went very well! i'm happy with all the results i've recieved so far, and now i have a week long break! since the last time i posted my sister noelle came to jordan to visit me. i was not expecting her at all. what a suprise! she will be here for a month visiting fam and hanging with me until she goes to starts school in miami in january.
at any rate, the week long break is called eid al adha which is a muslim holiday commemorating abraham's willingness to sacrfice his son ishmael to god. luckiillly god intervened and had abraham sacrifice a ram instead. you can read all about it on wikipedia if you want to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha
so, this means i have a week off of school. thank you abraham.
me and my sister are going to go to jerusalem with my friend Ibrahim which coincidentally is the arabic name for abraham!
I'm leaving tomorrow morning bright and early. I'll post pictures when i get back.
here are some pics of the last few days. i went to sahab with noelle to hang with some fam.


this is a picture of my cousin alaa. he's 18, and he really wants to come to america. i'm going to try to get him a visa. he's a sweetheart. he's really shy, but he's like my favorite cousin. i really really want him to come to the U.S.! i hope you read this dad.

this is a picture of my dad's younger brother rashad and his two kids medo (9) (muhammad) and runda (2)...medo is really sick. i'm not sure what's wrong with him, but it makes me really sad. runda is also afraid of us...she only likes us when we play peek a boo or throw her up in the air...so we do a lot of that. she also cries alot. constant reminder of why i don't want children.


This is a picture of me and sito feisal. I usually call him mr. feisal and he calls me mr. jamil. he only has one tooth. six years ago he had 3. at any rate, he's my great uncle, and he is hilarious! he always pretends to call obama and he told me that he went to elementary school with him. he also told me to tell my dad that abu abdallah died...so i was being really empathetic and then when i got home today and told my dad, my dad started laughing and told me that abu abdallah is a fictional character that feisal used to tell my dad stories about when he was little.

this is a picture of some man chilling on the phone in sahab.


this is my aunt ilham and her son alaa and daughter jomana. everyone calls jomana an elephant which is sad, but apparently normal...they have another brother hamoud, but he like runs around in the streets all the time and bosses everyone around.


me and my dad's brothers rashad and eyad. <3