Concert

Last week sometime my Peer Tutor, Nimr, called me saying that there was a concert happening on campus that day around lunchtime.  My friends and I met up with him and walked over to the largest concert hall, about half the size of Macky Auditorium.  On the way in we saw a bunch of security guards with guns and the like, it turns out that the concert was because one of the princesses was visiting campus that day.  We find some seats in the auditorium and watch a guy at a podium in front of the stage talking about something...we asked around and it turns out that the queen was at campus that day promoting a new drug prevention program she's launched in Jordan.  And afterwards the choir sang.  It was cool to see Arabic music performed by students.  The band consisted of 8 men and 8 women singers, a keyboard, upright bass, violin, viola, squeaky arab flute thing, a santur looking thing, 2 oud arabic guitars, 1 regular guitar, cello, floor tabla, two lap tabla's, and a tambourine.  Picture below.  Walking out Nimr told me that the music was pretty mellow today because of the formality of the event since a princess was there.  He said next time we'll go to a "louder and crazier" concert.  Can't wait.