Just sittin', and waitin'

So I left Egypt, arrived in Jordan, jumped in a cab in hopes of crossing the border last night. Turns out the Israeli's closed it for what ever reason at 5, 30 min before I got there. So my driver takes me to a hotel in Amman. The hotel was a former Ramada I think, except now its the Rama Hotel. They had sat. tv and I discovered theres about 10 TBN channels, for the Mid East in Arabic, Spain, Italy, Europe, etc. etc. The sat also had tons and tons of porn (you had to skip a block of channels to get by it) which I thought was mildly funny. Jordan actually looks alot nicer than Egypt.

Anyway, the by far and away absolute coolest person I met on the trip (and probably for awhile) happened last night. I was eating by myself in the hotel restraunt and a guy I thought was European or American walked in. I said hi and he sat down at my table. Turns out hes Ukranian, turns out hes a former Speltzna (Soviet Specail Forces-he grew up under Soviet rule), turns out hes been in 4 wars, turns out the 4th was Iraq.

It sucked being in the restarant cuase he spoke not the best english, and when youre telling story after story of killing Arabs you whisper. Anyway, he said he was a bodygaurd that was employed by some company, he had been there for a year and was finally going home to Ukraine. What he described was more of a mercenary, I sat there and couldnt really say anything as he rattled off about civilians getting carbombed, his company members dying by him, and insurgents dying alot. I could go on and on about what he said and even give some more analysis of crap but ill leave you with how he described when a human gets shot.

"(Wizzing his finger into stomach)Humans like jellyfish, 90% blood. Goes everywhere. Fuck."