A taxi driver picks us up at 12 and takes us to the church and office complex of our friends whom we have worked with during the time we stayed in Paris. We see several friends and it is wonderful to be with them, hear how they and their families are doing. It is as if we’ve seen one another yesterday. Khamal shows us the center and shares with us everything that they are doing – a wonderful visit. We all go for lunch to a traditional Jordanian restaurant and we have a feast. Hugo and Andrej enjoy listening to the fascinating stories and especially enjoy the delicious meal.
We return home with our taxi driver who shares such interesting cultural information with us about Jordan, the government, education and the role women play in the more modern context.
A troublesome situation with our container in Namibia has developed. Our container has arrived and the contents were unpacked in a customs warehouse without our permission. We are now told that I (Caren) have to be and they will not release the furniture to the person we have given permission to. This, in spite of the fact that we’ve communicated all the information to the individual shipping companies as early as September of last year when we started to make arrangements for our move.
As we received more information it became clear that there was some major miscommunication between the shipping company in Germany and the company in Namibia. E-mails and phone calls have been going back and forth and we have no clear answer or decision yet. Our travel plans can be majorly affected by this, because if we do not work this problem out, I will have to go to Namibia to sign the necessary papers as we are paying daily storage fees for our stuff in the warehouse! I do not feel that this is really our problem, since we’ve been clear in our communication from the very beginning; we’ve given permission for our friend to sign for our container and to move everything into a storage place we’ve arranged.
Please think of us in regards to this. It seems that we solve one problem another pops up and it does make traveling far more difficult if you have a cloud like this hang over you.
4:30 Will, a friend of Hugo and Andrej’s arrive. He is teaching English as a second language in a school an hour away from Amman. What an interesting place to have a reunion!
A troublesome situation with our container in Namibia has developed. Our container has arrived and the contents were unpacked in a customs warehouse without our permission. We are now told that I (Caren) have to be and they will not release the furniture to the person we have given permission to. This, in spite of the fact that we’ve communicated all the information to the individual shipping companies as early as September of last year when we started to make arrangements for our move.
As we received more information it became clear that there was some major miscommunication between the shipping company in Germany and the company in Namibia. E-mails and phone calls have been going back and forth and we have no clear answer or decision yet. Our travel plans can be majorly affected by this, because if we do not work this problem out, I will have to go to Namibia to sign the necessary papers as we are paying daily storage fees for our stuff in the warehouse! I do not feel that this is really our problem, since we’ve been clear in our communication from the very beginning; we’ve given permission for our friend to sign for our container and to move everything into a storage place we’ve arranged.
Please think of us in regards to this. It seems that we solve one problem another pops up and it does make traveling far more difficult if you have a cloud like this hang over you.
4:30 Will, a friend of Hugo and Andrej’s arrive. He is teaching English as a second language in a school an hour away from Amman. What an interesting place to have a reunion!
Hugo is still coughing up a storm in spite of all kinds of syrups and tablets. He says he feels better though. We will give it another day or two.
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