The weekend has finally arrived, and my roommate and I decided to start our first day off with another mission: to find a café. The neighborhood we live in is beautiful but in order to get to the main streets you have to walk down what I refer to as the " hills from hell" because they are beyond steep and sometimes slippery. You have to really commit yourself to something in order to go down those hills. It took us a good half an hour to get to the area of the main street we were searching for.
After a quick stop to the ATM we decided to walk up another hill, maybe we would find a market or store that will forever change our lives... and guess what we did! We discovered our very first café! One of my goals for this trip as to find a non-American coffee shop that would be a great space to do school work in and a place that I could reflect on my weeks, months, days in. When we walked in we immediately felt at home because of the "hipster/western" vibe. Mason jars, creative drink names, and costars have never made me so excited before! We both ordered two very different drinks ( which in some ways also described our personalities) - my roommate ordering a mint lemonade, and myself ordering a chocolate coffee fusion. The drinks were great ( we actually both ended up going up and ordering more drinks this time I got the mint lemonade and she got the chocolate coffee fusion) and the atmosphere was even better. We got a chance to relax and really think about how crazy the last week has been (not before taking a million pictures of our drinking and giving a million compliments to our surroundings). Cafes are very popular in Jordan - it's actually really embedded in the cultural. When traveling through Jordan you will see a wide variety of them; some cafe's are only for men ( which is kind of an unspoken rule), some are replications of American/Canadian cafes ( Starbucks is 100% represented throughout Amman, there are also a lot of Costa's which I have never been to but are very popular), and some are purely Jordanian. I am so excited to find more cafes throughout my time here, but I am also happy that there is one relatively close to my where I am staying!
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