Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga Special: Combination and
Nurse Station  by Jason Thompson, Feb 10th 2011  House of 1000
Manga Special Portable Edition Part 2: Combination and Nurse
Station  This is my second week traveling abroad for a family
wedding in Amman, Jordan. If you've never been to the Middle
East, my best travel advice in one sentence is: you'd better
like coffee and tea, ‘cause you'll be drinking a lot of it.
Since I love coffee, this is fine with me, and there's more
caffeine in a typical cup of Arabic coffee than in the 250ml
cans Coke comes in here. The climate in Jordan is a lot like
southern California; it rains in the winter, making it wet
enough for a few months of green grass before the dry summer
sets in. The city of Amman is hilly and busy and, like Tokyo or
pretty much anyplace in the world inhabited before cars were
invented, is full of narrow streets. There are plenty of
American shows subtitled in Arabic on TV, but mostly everyone
watches Lebanese TV shows and Egyptian movies. L