Posted on May 18, 2009 by BC
I used to think there were three price-levels in Jordan:
The price for tourists and wealthy foreigners
The price for foreigners who can bargain
The local price.
One of my best purchasing moments came when I figured out how to bypass all the super nice phones that shopkeepers like to sell foreigners and by a 15JD no-frills model that [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2009 by BC
Since arriving here in Jordan I’ve noticed a fondness for making sandwiches out of things the last time I took a knife too was in High School Biology class.
A couple of weeks ago I was out driving after midnight. Unusual on both accounts. But, for some reason we had a rental for a couple of [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2009 by BC
It had been a bad day already.
The toilet was broken. The kids were nutty and hard to get out the door by 7:30 AM. At school I had a test and a presentation. After school Victoria and the kids were locked out, so I had to leave a study session early and make the long [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2008 by BC
To the untrained eye it may just look like another bag of bread. Of course, to the untrained eye it may not even look like that. Yes, this is generally how we buy our bread or khubz (خُبز) here in Jordan. We try to get it fresh from a nearby bakery every [...]
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