Your fellow students come from near and far (#diversity). They also spend their summers in a wide range of places. We’re highlighting as many of them as we can before we’re all back in Morningside Heights for the fall. So send a pic and a few details about your summer accommodations to tips@bwog.com. Today’s home is from Danielle S., a grad student…

Where: As the news anchors and Op-Ed contributors continue to report on escalating violence and outright misery here in the Middle East, I’ve spent my summer in the eye of the storm—Amman, Jordan. Every morning I wake up in my three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment to the Adhan, or Muslim call to prayer. I am spending my summer in Jabel Al-Weibdeh, a beautiful neighborhood crawling with Arabic students, NGO interns and local artists.

Sight:

Sound: In Weibdeh, the Adhan emanates five times daily from the nearby King Abdullah Mosque in Al-Abdali. The muezzin’s melodic voice has become an important feature of my time here. However, though I’m not a morning-person, I find myself looking forward to the normal beep of my iPhone alarm clock.

Smell: Typical of the region, the smells of cumin, coriander, sumac and shwarma greet me as I walk up the narrow pathway to my apartment.