At 2pm, Isaiah and I were picked up from school by Mum & Dad, after they picked up Ethan from his school. Then, we drove to Salt (a town near Amman) , which was a long car ride because there was a lot of traffic. We arrived at about 3.15pm at the house of a family which had invited us to come for lunch.
While we were waiting for lunch to be ready, I was reading a book and the adults were talking. One of the adults asked me a question but I was too shy to answer in Arabic, so I just shrugged my shoulders.
Then we ate lunch, which was really yummy - Diwali (rice wrapped in grape leaves), stuffed courgettes and chicken. They were always keeping our plates full and trying to get us to eat more, even though we said that we had had enough.
After lunch we went into the garden and one of the girls (about 12 years old) asked me if I wanted to come with her to explore around the house, so we went walking on the road in the local village. While we were walking, she told me all about the weather in Salt (in Arabic) and then she asked me what the weather was like in England. So I told her that it was cold and rainy most of the year.
Then her twin sister joined us and we chatted about school before going to the shop together to get some ice cream and crisps. When we got back, we played piggy-in-the-middle but they call it 'birdie' because pigs are forbidden in Islam. Lots of different relatives came to say hello while we sat in the garden. One of them did a magic trick which Ethan really enjoyed (see video)
When we were leaving, the 2 twins asked me to come back soon. That day was the most Arabic I've spoken in my life because I'm usually shy to speak Arabic even though I know a lot.
