From sunny Florida....

Now I am writing this piece from Orlando Florida, where we {the participants} are having a great time, not only learning lots of things about the primaries, but also enjoying the sun after having to tolerate freezing weather in the District of Colombia (D.C.).
The programme is getting more interesting, especially that I better understand what's going on in the primaries.
Here in the 4th largest populous states, the programme is so practical.
We here have the chance to see eye to eye how the process of voting starts, how the votes are tallies, how elections are supervised, techniques used in the casting ballot process.
We visited polling centres, met with local Americans.
However, I have to say that one of the best activities was attending the rallies for Rudy Giulani and john McCain.
It was so new to me and interesting to see the would-be president speaking to the people only few feet far from them and presenting their agenda.
Giulani's rally was a little bit smaller in the size of people attending, McCain's however who already one the primaries was attended by more people who received his remarks with applause and music.
At McCain's rally, I had the feeling that it was US President George W. Bush talking. By that I mean, I did not like McCain's statements such as …"We are succeeding in Iraq" and I was wondering by what he means by "succeeding". Plus, statements like ISLAMIC EXTREMISM, where so stereotyping to me to link the radical violence and extremism to Islam.
Anyway, it was a great experience to learn and be in the middle of the scene.

Mohammad Ghazal
Reporter with The Jordan Times.