4 Months - A long time? What do you think?

Four months, how long does that seem to you? To me I wouldn’t say a life time but pretty close. That’s how long as of today since I have left my family friends, the states, started my “career” and grown along the way. I know on this blog I say this a lot, maybe its just me, maybe it is just how amazing God is, and how he shows himself in so many different ways every day, but I am continue to be amazed that it has now been four months, the longest that ….well………I have been away from any and all of you and it!!!! It really is scary in a way when you think of it!!!! But at the same time empowering to think I can, I can make it out there, but it is the love and support from my friends and family that keeps me strong! And I have grown so much as a person, in so many different ways. I mean as far as in my job I have achieved things that I didn’t think I could have during my training months ago. They talked about the high learning curve of this job and you really don’t quit grasp exactly what that means. I mean they say you would be surprised at the steep learning curve. And once you experienced it you really have, I mean even I was a little self conscious getting in front of the class in college and presenting whatever it was. But now because of my job I could get up in front of an audience naked and sing while doing back flips and really don’t think it would slow make me think twice, well maybe the naked thing I am usually in a suit.

But then again I can’t think of another job when every single meeting of every day your in front of the Chief Executive Officer of a multi million or some cases billion dollar company. I mean today I was sitting with His Excellency Dr. Omar of the Social Security Corporation who is in charge of a portfolio of 5 to 6 Billion Dollars. I don’t want to say “that’s impressive” but lets just say that’s substantial. But with all of your Harvard, MIT, PhDs CEOs etc at the end of the day they are all just people. And truly if you treat them as just people, and keep them level headed with all due respect as anyone else in this world, I have found you gain there respect much faster.

Sorry I went rambling for a minute. Anyways we are at the end of the project, enshalah (Arabic for Lord willing) and had a great week. Yesterday we had 3 meetings and signed three contracts, let’s just say the office was pretty empressed. It was nice to get a note from the Senior director of the company noting the accomplishment so that is always nice.

We had dinner at one of our client’s houses tonight which was really nice. As usual it is always a show especially I think when they have foreign guests for dinner. I can’t describe the amount of food that was served especially if you are an out of town guest. But this closest thing I can think of is going to your mom and saying hey Mom!!! I have some clients coming over for dinner. Ok Chad, I will cook. So Mom (if she was Arabic and in Jordan) would then proceed to go into the kitchen and then spend the entire day preparing every recipe in her recipe book. And come on you know your moms recipe book. It is like 50 pages, falling apart because it is soo old and has been passed down from generation to generation or atleast it looks that way. That is what this is like I mean there were like over 50 dishes cooked, and of course your expected to try a little of everything, I mean come on they cooked each of them for you, so who cares how sick you may feel later on.

And what is so funny, we got this before Ramadan started with this many dishes. Well now Ramadan has started and the Muslims choose to fast during the day. So it is even a bigger more important meal at night. So there are special Ramadan dishes ( Oh come on you know the special Christmas dished your grandma makes) So you can add on the special Ramadan Drink, salad, appetizer, entrée, desert etc. on top of the original 50 course traditional dinner and you have easily got at least like 75 dishes that as the guest you must try.

Long story short, you thought your uncle could put away the pumpkin pie and turkey! You haven’t seen anything till you had a Ramadan Arabic Dinner!!! Well I guess that’s all for now. I think that we are going to head down to the Dead Sea Kempenski Hotel tomorrow to enjoy the day off by the pool and who can forget about the servie. I’ll be thinking of you when the Thai girl is working those nots out in my back while having a strawberry daiquiri looking out at the dead Sea!!! Just kidding, well not really LOL! All my best!!! And lets pray for another great four months!!!

Enshalah,

Chad