Annual Compulsory “Cold, Rainy Year on Campus” Post

Anyone who has ever been a student at Jordan University is aware of how everything seems so much colder when on campus. Perhaps its the fact that one has to cross relatively open spaces to get from one class to the other, or perhaps because its that the “university mountain” is high in altitude.

Whichever reason it is, the hours spent running from class to class with my head covered with a book, the many times I’ve slipped and fell smack on my backside while trying to run fast enough to get to a lecture in time, and all the screams I’ve let out as my umbrella flipped from the wind are one of the things I’m going to miss most when I graduate (soon).

But anyway… here’s to the last annual compulsory “Cold, Rainy Year on Campus” post, and to many more decades of students slipping and falling SMACK while running through Share3 il Nawar (the Street of the Vulgar).

Ahh… the smell of the pine trees of Jordan University with the rain is probably one of my favorite smells in the world.










  • http://confessionsofavegetarianshark.blogspot.com/ Averroes

    Lol @ share3 el nawar..it lives on eh? by now I would’ve thought it was renamed Boulivard el nawar..but some things become embedded in the collective memory..generations hand them down to generations..cool!

    nice..especially since the last time I was at JU..rain or shine..was early 1999, as I ended my service there.

    who’s the cutie with the red umbrella and glasses..on the bottom right..tell her I said Ha youuu dooen?

  • http://american-in-jordan.blogspot.com/ Dave

    Bummer. I’m going to miss all the videos of your groovy dance class.

  • http://thearabobserver.blogspot.com/ The Observer

    You brought me back 6 years in time.

    I hated those cold days at the university! It gets extremely cold in the winter. I am glad it is all behind me now :)

  • http://hareega.blogspot.com Hareega

    I love it when it rains in JU, i used to drive from the hospital lal koliyyat el adabiyyeh (where Siveen is) and if there’s not much traffic drive as fast as we can o entarteshom bel mayy elli bel 7ofar, konna 7aywanaat i know

  • http://dubaiconsumermirror.blogspot.com moryarti

    the photos are soo nice ..

    I love cold weather..

  • http://reflectionsallmine.net salam

    I hated winter in university..el marasem(studios) were sooooooooooooooo cold..your feet would freeze .

  • http://www.my-deep-ocean.blogspot.com Ghaith Al-Amaireh

    Tell me about it…