Friday night is always the night where Jordanians take time of to enjoy the family. It is actually sometimes very difficult to make appointments with our local freinds, because they must go to barbeque parties or picknicks with their family. A funny but not unfamiliar way (compared to the traditions of some Danish families) to spend a friday evening is to go to the malls. This is city mall, where we have (admittedly) spend some fridays shopping or watching films - for example Avatar and the new Robin Hood.
Today we spend our friday night eating icecream, drinking tea and smoking hooka/agile in the popular Rainbow Street in Amman. It is not often that you run into life music and dance in the streets of Amman, but here it happend, and it was great! I didn't caught the best dancers, but the video give an idea about the atmosphere.
It is a caucasian dance, and we wouldn't have known what is was, if not our friend Osama Dohjoka (who has Caucasian origin) had dragged us into the cinema some weeks ago to see a movie about the Caucasian immigrating to the northern Jordan in the late 19th century. It was not that good a movie - too much focus on a love story between a Caucasian man and a beduin girl and too little honesty about the bloody battles between Caucasians and beduins... But it told a story about an important part of the Jordanian history, and it is always interesting to se interpretations of history. Today the Caucasians are fully accepted in the Jordanian society.
