Happy Belated Fourth of July, friends! I hope you all celebrated with style, whether in the States or somewhere else around the world! Here inAmman, we had our own little Fourth of July celebration, subdued, of course, because it probably wouldn't do to be loudly patriotic in a country where the average person is not too fond of America, or at least of our foreign policy in the Middle East. Also, we had school. However, we still managed to have a pretty enjoyable celebration - as soon as we got back from class, we started blasting Pandora's Fourth of July playlist and contemplated buying sketchy fireworks to set off in the empty lot by our apartment building. There's a pretty fun tradition in Jordan of setting off tons of fireworks every time someone gets married, which happens, in our part of town, every night. July 4th was no exception, and so we got to enjoy the sounds and sights of celebratory fireworks, without the risk of injuring ourselves by setting off ill-made fireworks with the cigarette lighter we use to start our stove. To top off our super low-key July 4th, Kaitlin, my roommate, found a recipe for bananas stuffed with chocolate and cooked in tin foil over a campfire, which sounds pretty much as American as you can get. We decided to replicate it with our stove, which proved to be just as dangerous as it sounds...the tin foil caught on fire, the kitchen towel got singed, we burnt pretty much all of our fingers...but it was totally worth it in the end, as we ate our bananas with ice cream and watched Arrested Development and felt a twinge or two of homesickness to be back in the U.S.A.
Here's the process...aka right before everything went up in very patriotic flames:
And here's the finished product!
Yes, this is the most exciting thing that happens during the school week here...after we ate, it was back to going over Arabic flashcards, which, in its own way, is probably the most patriotic thing we could be doing on the Fourth of July!
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