Lat week my mother in law togwther with a good friend of the familiy were here. We had a great time! As I had to work Katja was more involved and showed them around. Although I was working I managed to see them quite often as we met for lunch or we were invited to a dinner at our American friend's place. They enjoyed their stay (at least I hope ;-) and left last Thursday in the night to Good Friday. Good Friday is off anyway here as it is Friday and therefore weekend. Easter Sunday is off as well and depending where you work also Monday. I am enjoying a long weekend and next weekend I will having another long weekend too as we'll have 1st of May off. So April & May seem to be quite a cool months from a working hour perspective ;-)
I have a filling in one tooth which broke a bit, means it got a crack. It does not really hurt but I need to change it. Means: first visit at a Jordanian Dentist's Office. OK I have to admit, that sometimes things just happen and you ask yourself why... So immagin that I was looking for a dentist several month ago as my yearly check was due. I was looking around but not really looking, I was more repeating to Katja that I needed a dentist. So she contacted our friends knowing that their doughter just got brackets and were happy with the doc. I got the address and did not call for whatever reason. One day we were invited at a dinner at my Italian/Swiss friend and another couple shows up. He is Jordanian grown up in Belgium. Fluent in French as they lived in the French speaking part of Belgium, a very nice, intelligent and likable person and with the profession of: ....drum roll..... dentist! So I found my dentist. At that time my filling was still alive and kicking but after some weeks it broke and I called him to see him in his office. With all due respect towards the culture here and I really try hard not to even allow stereotypes to come up, but I honestly admit that I was very curious to see his clinic... So I call and get an appointment the next day! Wow, a good start! I arrive and it was a six/seven floor building. He's located at the fourth. Immagine a hallway and left and right appartments all belonging to all different types of doctors. I got to the one of my doctor and entered directly the waiting area. Very nice and not different from any other doctor's office I've seen anywhere. Then it continued. At 10 a.m. the time I was booked, the patient that was there left the room and I was called in at 10:02! They guy was more punctual than all the dentists I've seen in all my life! I got in and we had a chat, he asked me why I was there and he opened a file in his computer. We left the office and next door he has his chair and in front of the chair a computer screen, everything hyperclean, all white, very professional! He asked me to open my mouth checked and said that he'd need to do an X-ray to see what was wrong. He pulled the X-ray machine which is hooked on an arm fixed on the ceiling, gave me a small pad to put behind the tooth and from the other side he placed the X-ray on my cheek and pushed the button. The same second the image appeared on the screen in front of me! That was really high tech! He had a look together with me and told me that I need a crown (I knew it before he told me because I was told before leaving home that the filling would break soon and then it'd have to be replaced by a crown...) Anyway, he gave me a paste to get a negative image from my teeth to form the crown, which took me another 10 minutes. After that we fixed a new appointment for the coming week. I asked him if he could give me a small piece of paper (I am so used to the small papers with the time of the next appointment on it ;-) and he says: "Oh, we don't use this here anymore...we send our clients a sms the day before to remind." Wow! That was a real surprise and I tought that was really professional stuff ;-) So all in all the first dentist experience was a real success and we will see next week when he will have fixed my tooth but I am very confident that everything will be fine! Keep your fingers crossed anyway ;-)
Yesterday we went to a Lebanese restaurant where they already know us when we are showing up. We went there with a very nice Austrian couple who is hosting his sister. They are busy too as they had his sister at their place, followed by her sister. They brought the first sister to the airport and the other sister arriverd with the airplane with which the first was leaving ;-) We had dinner and went back home early as we were expecting new guests to arrive the same night and were supposed to pick them up around 2 a.m. at the airport. So we finished our supper and quickly went to our place to have a coffee and they left around 2315. Katja and I went to bed to quickly put our head down as we had to get up around 1:15. So we go to bed and make sure to set at least three alarms (clock, cell phone and i-pod ;-) and already turned off the light when Katja's cell starts ringing. We both thought that Katja just set an alarm at the wrong time, but it was our friend calling. You know that when somebody calls you in the middle of the night, it usually is nothing good... so also this time. They lost their flight and were stranded in Istanbul! It was not their mistake as they were simply sent to the wrong gate!! As the airport is big and they happened to be in the opposite corner of were they were supposed to be, they did not managed to get to the plane in time respectively they were there but the gate was already closed and they were not let in anymore!!! I think this is outrageous especially as apparently there were still some 15 Minutes left before taking off but more important as they took us away one day to enjoy our friends! ;-) Dammmit! OK, we will enjoy them starting tonight instead of today ;-)
OK, otherwise not too many things happened. I do not write anything about the weather as it goes up and down. Somedays it hits 30° and then dropps to 15 and 2 at night. If you wanna follow our weather click here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/245
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OK, folks take care wherever you are in this world. A big hug from Amman!
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