1) Jordanians!
2) You get to see the latest in Hijab fashion trends (I’m not fond of the current cone-head look though)
3) You actually have places to dress-up in evening wear
4) You have met royalty and know kids who know their kids (we Americans are a bit infatuated with the whole monarchy thing)
5) Picking khoubezzeh in your backyard for supper
6) You don’t have to stop at stop signs
7) People always ask about your health and tell you that you look skinny (except that is not a good thing, and you are really just getting fatter)
8) If you had cancer, even nasty people are nice to you forever
9) Hashmi Hummous (also available at Pita Inn, Palatine Illinois 
)
10) Everyone has a cousin in Chicago, and you actually met one of them at WalMart
11) Raindrops on Jasmine (or roses)
12) Neighbors don’t mind your dog barking because there hasn’t been a robbery in the neighborhood since you got her.
13) Ayesh Maleek every morning (however you spell it in Arabizi, the national anthem)
14) The First Rain Happy Dance, practiced by all ages
15) The First Snow Happy Dance, practiced by all ages
16) the smell of khubz warming on a soba in winter
17) Immature green grapes hanging like little chandeliers
18) Batshon printers
19) Barjawi framer
20) Full Cup coffee next to whispers
21) Abu Marwan, the dukanji up the hill
22) a strong domestic security (hi there!!!! Thanking God for you today!)
23) our Jordanian pastor, he is hilarious but doesn’t cut you any slack when you are blowing it.
24) our landlord, always ready to tell a story of ayaam za maan
25) that a uni drop-out dyslexic who has terrible grammar can become a writer
I’ll have to come back for the next set
great list aunty kinzi
love it, how can i not know :p *wink wink* hehe and love #1 and #6 hehehe
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Too fun. And what a good idea.
Very good – enlightening for an outsider like myself.
Looking skinny would not let me know that I look well,I get corncered when people look as skinny as beanpoles,very corncerned as a matter of a fact.It’s better to be told one is lugging around a few extra pounds in regard to one’s welfare,and then give some pointers how to loose them in my book than be told one is skinny, that’s when bones stick out of the body to me.
A love letter list to Jordan! Well done, maybe I will throw some out there too!
Dee, habeebit ‘albi
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Anadoush, I met a friend of yours Friday…another blogger’s sister
MB, I can’t wait to see your list!!!! Happy Dance!!! #26 on my list will be you!!
BWT, thank you sir! At this rate, you’ll feel like an insider and want to visit!!
Barbie, nice to ‘see’ you! Yes, bean-pole girls concern me too.
Hi Joycie! I bet your list will rhyme
I like #10 and #12, but #25 is my fave.
5 and 11 are my favorites. Thanks for making me homesick kinzi :teary eyes:
Great list, cant wait for the next 25!
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since ur not on twitter and the only way i could share with u random articles of news is through a comment so here i go
check this out its interesting and funny http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2010/01/26/bawdy-bard.html
Well, I think I’ll get around to doing this eventually as well
Love the list, though as a pedestrian, I can’t say I agree with you on #6, especially when I go on my daily walks with the little one…
Marvin, thx,
! Makes me happy too, and keeps my kids in braces.
Hareega, thx for linking!
Bambambi (lol, I keep wanting to put an O’ in front ot that!) I AM on twitter and I just followed you. Now other than that, I have no idea what I am doing on twiteer, I just make the funny short link and click it, I really don’t have the faintest idea how to be a follower. any tips?
‘Bout that link…torn. I laughed out loud that Nashville is INDEED NOT Toronto, duh. I think the arts community has a much wider definition of ‘appropriate’ than does the average parental community about sexual innuendo and gestures. My take is that the kids don’t have the emotional immaturity to handle the overflow of their hormonal drives, and the more you can do to tire them out and distract them from becoming obsessesed with their sexuality the better. I would probably find myself siding with the parents, and telling the director what he can do with his artistic license in my town.
Beti, a European perspective on this list would be very fun indeed. You are a pretty cool mom, I rarely ventured out with my stroller, becuase of people like me and #6
ooooh how did u dare not mention mansaf !!
lol was kidding ..nice post
nice list. IMHO, much nicer than many Jordanians’ lists.