kids say the darndest things

the youngest student in my center is a tiny girl with down syndrome. any time anyone does something she doesn't like, or drops something, or sometimes for no apparent reason, she yells hiwan (animal). how do you think she learned that?

on an unrelated side note the director of peace corps, from america, the big director, is in jordan right now to reinforce some ties with the jordanian government. he's making a visit to some of the centers and tomorrow he is going to the center where i did my training and where one of the volunteers from my pst group is currently working. i'm going over for a little meet-and-greet. which is pretty cool. since jordan is the only peace corps post in the middle east it is getting a lot of attention in the peace corps and they are trying really hard to step up the number of people here. so they need more places to put volunteers. the next group that comes in is supposed to have 60 volunteers. sounds insane to me, but i'm excited. now if they can only get the people who are here to last through their whole service...