Post from JFK and from Amman

More for the blog. So it's 9:13 pm, and we're in Kennedy airport, waiting to board. Most of the group is here, except for the guy from Rhode Island. When he gets here, we'll all get together and pray. Been playing a lot on my iPhone, so I found a samsung charging station and am charging it up. I also have electricity for my laptop here. There's a wireless signal, but it's from something called Boingo and you have to pay for it.

The guy with Verizon said that for him on the bb, international roaming is only $30.00 extra per month. Of course, it's only 24.99 wikth ATT, but that's for only 20 MB. which I think kinda sux.
Not too much to say; I'm just excited that there's electricity and I can charge up my laptop. I'm going to put it up now and socialize with the group.

From the Larsa Hotel in Amman:
Not sure what time it is or what day it is. I'm told it's 11:08 on Monday nite, which is 4:08 Monday afternoon in the US. I've been in transit since 6 Sunday evening. The flight was uneventful, and didn't seem as long as the 10.5 or 11.5 hours it took. I sat beside Charles Lippse, and across from some guy (not with our party) who was drunk out of his mind. He ran our colleague (the gujy with Verizon service) out of his seat with his talking and stretching out, and actually dropped his used water bottle onto the people behind him.

It was after 5 when we landed here in Jordan, so there's not much to tell. We were whisked through customs and taken on a 40+ minute bus ride to Amman. We are at the Larsa hotel; not great, not bad -- it suits our purposes. Dinnner was a lovely, fairly healthy buffet, and we got together in a conference room afterwards to all introduce ourselves. We are a group of 22, mostly from TN. My roommate is Makeba D'Abreau, fellow NYTS alum.

My iPhone doesn't work, and we didn't have internet service in the first room we had. The hotel guy had to go out to the repeater to get us a signal, but it was so weak he ended up moving us from the 4th floor to the 2nd floor. We now are completely wired.

I'm tired and sleepy, and we have to get up at 6 tomorrow am to do a tour. So I'm going to stop here.