And the wedding continues
Well, today was the village wedding! It was AMAZING! Ok, so there has to be a small hitch to everything, and this is no exception.
Abu Aiman's family was going to prepare lunch for the volunteers which were coming down (15 of them) but when they arrived there were 10 extra jordanians (abu nehad and family) and so Abu Aiman got mad at me cause I hadn't told him.
Needless to say, I was tired (i'd been helping with cooking for 3 hours) and so i kind of blew up at him. I told him he could do whatever he wanted (invite them or not invite them) but I was done with it and he could do whatever he wanted that didn't involve getting mad at me!
We ate, and went to the wedding (which involved the women and men being separate... the men dancing and the women sitting) and came home.
But the one thing that made me feel better... is when I said goodbye to the girls abu aiman came outside and apologized. He told me he was just upset at being caught off guard and surprised but wasn't mad at me and was sorry he took out his frustrations at me.
Well, I was floored.... for an older man to apologize to a younger woman is almost unheard of (due to pride) so it was quite impressive.
Tomorrow I will go with Josh and his family to Amman and then have a meeting sunday morning and then back to the village sunday afternoon. Boy, am I looking forward to a weekend at home... smile!
Abu Aiman's family was going to prepare lunch for the volunteers which were coming down (15 of them) but when they arrived there were 10 extra jordanians (abu nehad and family) and so Abu Aiman got mad at me cause I hadn't told him.
Needless to say, I was tired (i'd been helping with cooking for 3 hours) and so i kind of blew up at him. I told him he could do whatever he wanted (invite them or not invite them) but I was done with it and he could do whatever he wanted that didn't involve getting mad at me!
We ate, and went to the wedding (which involved the women and men being separate... the men dancing and the women sitting) and came home.
But the one thing that made me feel better... is when I said goodbye to the girls abu aiman came outside and apologized. He told me he was just upset at being caught off guard and surprised but wasn't mad at me and was sorry he took out his frustrations at me.
Well, I was floored.... for an older man to apologize to a younger woman is almost unheard of (due to pride) so it was quite impressive.
Tomorrow I will go with Josh and his family to Amman and then have a meeting sunday morning and then back to the village sunday afternoon. Boy, am I looking forward to a weekend at home... smile!
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