my first snow day in jordan

we had no school today because it was too cold and none of the students showed up. so i have been sitting in my room with all the curtains drawn for the past seven hours. the curtains are drawn because i feel that it helps to retain the little bit of heat that is in my bedroom. the rest of my house is 40/42 degrees, but its a bit warmer in my room. i have had my heater on all day (big splurge) and have a choice between using one, two, or three of the heating panels. my default is one and i crank it up to two when i can see my breath too much to see the computer screen clearly. this system seems to be working.

all in all though it was a pretty nice day; it felt like a snow day at home. i spent the whole day just curled up reading and watching movies. i made a bomb fried noodles, veggies and eggs dish for lunch, and some stuffed cabbage (malfoof) my neighbor dropped off for me for dinner. the night couldn't have ended any better either: i made some popcorn on the stove (thanks mom for preparing me for life without a microwave) which i flavored with these essentially solid msg chicken cube things thanks to a suggestion by a fellow pcv which turned out quite zaaki (delicious), and watched the big lebowski which never, ever, fails to make me laugh and leave me in a good mood.

the weekend starts tomorrow and my big plans should be to do laundry but if it keeps raining/snowing that is out of the question. in which case i will not be looking too sharp next week. we are currently in 'standfast' mode here in peace corps jordan, which means that i am not supposed to leave my house. this is part of the emergency plan if any kind of adverse event occurs, and it is in effect now because there is supposed to be a big snowstorm. hopefully its lifted by saturday though because i had plans to have a get-together with some of the other pcv's in the area. gooli inshallah (basically: wish me luck, literally: say with the will of god) for me.