Culture Kit
Jordan
ID # 3908
Bring Jordan to your classroom! Items from this kit include a tajiya (cap), a kufiyen (a headdress), za’atar (thyme/sliced pimentos), a newspaper, a Syrian visa, a coffee pot, a magazine, and a children’s book. Religious items include the Qur’an, prayer beads, and a prayer mat. Become more familiar with the daily life of Jordan with items such as a Zain SIM Recharge card, currency, laminated pictures, a green ceramic cup, and the national flag. Reserve our Jordan kit now to share with your students!
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Elliot Montpellier & Linden Walt
Elliot Montpellier is currently a 4th year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He plans to graduate in the spring of 2011 with studies in Environmental Health Science and the Arabic Language. He traveled to Jordan to gain experience in both of these fields. Elliot worked with the city government on urban agriculture projects involved roof gardening and re-using household wastewater for agriculture on vacant lands within the capital city of Amman. In the afternoons he studied Arabic, because the Arabic that is spoken there is very different than the Arabic that is taught in university. He spent most of his time (outside of work and school) drinking mint tea, enjoying the delicious Jordanian food, and traveling around the country and region visiting deserts, mosques, castles, old cities and seas.
Linden Walt is currently a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Class of 2014. He is a Global Studies major with a concentration in Middle Eastern Politics. He lived in Jordan for 10 weeks during the summer of 2012 while he volunteered at Families Development Association, a women’s economic empowerment organization in the capital city of Amman. As part of a team with four other college students, he was a teaching assistant in English, Math and Arabic classes for teenage girls who had dropped out of school for financial or familial reasons. He had an incredible time living and working in Amman, Jordan and plans to return for a semester to study Arabic.