Connections

If I'm not making Cokeville connections, I'm making BYU connections. Last night, I met a girl who will be attending BYU this coming fall, in sha' allah. The visit was actually a planned event for the purpose of introducing her to some fellow BYU cougars. She just graduated from high school and wants to study accounting at BYU. Basically, she chose the right school seeing as how our accounting program is within the top five in the country. She seemed excited at the prospect of a new adventure, but her father seemed a bit nervous. I can't blame him. It would be hard to send your daughter to the other side of the world in order to go to school. He tried to talk her into going to Turkey, but she wanted to go to America. The reason he tried to get her to consider Turkey is because that is the place where he will be spending a great deal of time over the next several years as the Jordanian ambassador to Turkey. Their house was beautiful! And ginormous. I basically spent the first five minutes at their house trying to scrape my jaw off the floor. First we went through a greeting line that strongly reminded me of going through the line at a wedding reception in the States. Just after the line was the sitting room where we were served lemon and mint juice which is very delicious. We sat and chatted for a while then moved outside to the porch and did a bit more of the same. When the food was ready, we moved back inside to a large room that was perfect for serving a large group in many different ways. The food was delicious! My personal favorite was freekeh which is a dish made from green wheat with chicken piled on top.  I was also glad that I wasn't the only girl that went back for seconds. After dinner, we moved back to the porch for dessert of kanafa and watermelon. After chatting for a bit longer, we then had tea. I took the za'atar tea that was made from fresh leaves picked from their herb garden right next to the porch. We finally arrived back at our apartment at 12:30 this morning. And I almost promptly went to bed. It was a great evening!

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