Snow...!!! (With Pictures)
Salaam,
I didn't really believe the stories i had been told before coming to Jordan; that heavy snowfalls occur during winter - i mean this is the middle east right? Deserts, sweltering heat and camels?
Well when i woke up this morning, all the above was gone. Snow, snow, snow. Everywhere! Subhanallah it was a bizarre thought-that it was snowing, and snowing heavily, in the middle-east, in Jordan and in Amman, but it was happening.
The first thought that came to my mind was that Qasid would be closed and so a day of from school. Yes! (I'm a keen student as you can see...) I'm not sure if i've mentioned this before, but basically Amman is built on a series of hills so all the roads are Very steep (much like Blackburn if anyone's been...). So in the snow it would be very difficult to get anywhere so everything shuts down. Alhamdulilla.
So anyway, as soon as i realised it was snowing, me and another flatmate known widely as Abu Hafla (The father of parties...Inshaallah i'll do a post on the ppl i live with) went up to the roof of our apartment to check out the views. Unfortunately the immediate area we live in isn't very scenic; just one block of apartments after another, but anyway it was pretty cool to see everything covered in a blanket of snow and observing some people and cars who had braved it outside struggle with the steep roads.
Anyway since the snow was still coming down fast, we retreated to our warm flat pretty quickly. So back in our flat, i sat down and just dazed out the window looking at the snow covered view, blissfully lost in this show of nature. Then the enemy came. The Sun. Noooooooooooooooooo...!
Alas this middle-east snow experience was to be cut short by the sun. By this time it had been snowing for a good four hours, and there was a few inches of snow on the ground, but then The Sun barged in and with all its power and might eliminated in a mere hour all that the snow had achieved...and Amman, was back to Amman.
Views from the roof of our apartment block:
I didn't really believe the stories i had been told before coming to Jordan; that heavy snowfalls occur during winter - i mean this is the middle east right? Deserts, sweltering heat and camels?
Well when i woke up this morning, all the above was gone. Snow, snow, snow. Everywhere! Subhanallah it was a bizarre thought-that it was snowing, and snowing heavily, in the middle-east, in Jordan and in Amman, but it was happening.
The first thought that came to my mind was that Qasid would be closed and so a day of from school. Yes! (I'm a keen student as you can see...) I'm not sure if i've mentioned this before, but basically Amman is built on a series of hills so all the roads are Very steep (much like Blackburn if anyone's been...). So in the snow it would be very difficult to get anywhere so everything shuts down. Alhamdulilla.
So anyway, as soon as i realised it was snowing, me and another flatmate known widely as Abu Hafla (The father of parties...Inshaallah i'll do a post on the ppl i live with) went up to the roof of our apartment to check out the views. Unfortunately the immediate area we live in isn't very scenic; just one block of apartments after another, but anyway it was pretty cool to see everything covered in a blanket of snow and observing some people and cars who had braved it outside struggle with the steep roads.
Anyway since the snow was still coming down fast, we retreated to our warm flat pretty quickly. So back in our flat, i sat down and just dazed out the window looking at the snow covered view, blissfully lost in this show of nature. Then the enemy came. The Sun. Noooooooooooooooooo...!
Alas this middle-east snow experience was to be cut short by the sun. By this time it had been snowing for a good four hours, and there was a few inches of snow on the ground, but then The Sun barged in and with all its power and might eliminated in a mere hour all that the snow had achieved...and Amman, was back to Amman.
Views from the roof of our apartment block:
Before...
After...
posted by Me at
2:47 PM
3 Comments:
asslamualikum
your pictures are making me feel 'home' sick.
[I went to jordan lived in the block of flats near where you are now!!!]its amazing where Allah takes us...subhanallah
dying to go back. plz make dua for me
wassslam
Bint Muhammad
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Anonymous, at 9:53 PM
cool fotos man...keep up the blog..
Am
By
Anonymous, at 12:15 PM
alh this place is very special wrt to the ulema one can access and also the serenity which one can find
By
Me, at 11:39 AM
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