Renewing my Visa in "just" 4 tries.....

When most nationalities arrive at Mataar Maleka Alia (Queen Alia Airport) in Amman they are automatically issued a one month, one entry visa.  If you want to stay longer than a month you have to go to the "nearest" police station to renew.  So, one week before my visa was to expire, Feras took me to the police station closest to my apartment which is in the Khalda neighborhood.  The lease to my apartment was handwritten in English by my landlord because he didn't want to give me a lease in Arabic because it would be unfair for me to sign something I don't understand.  Feras went to a store and bought a lease written in Arabic and signed my landlords name on it.  Only in Jordan can you buy a lease to an apartment at a store!  So we went into the station....after a million stares and everyone asking Feras "Where your girlfriend from? She is welcome to Jordan!" We were told we had to go to a different police station.  So we drove there, but it was 2:45 and they were closing at 3 so they didn't feel like seeing us.  Ah Jordan.  Or "f***ing Jordan!" as I so often say these days!  So, two days later we went back, and they told me I need to get papers from my school saying I'm a student.....but my school said I had to do all my visa stuff at the police.  Ugh.  The next day, two people from my school, an American and a British were going to renew their visas so I decided to go with them and see what happened.  They said nothing about doing it at school, but gave me another form to have my landlord sign.  My landlord was in Turkey at the time.  So....I went home, called Feras and he took me the next day with all the signed paperwork (that he signed for me).  The police men start saying I need something else and I'm about to kill them when the police cheif recognizes Feras's accent as being from Salt...and he was from Salt as well.  They start talking, joking around and what do you know because of this I was given a two month extension on my visa, no fees, and NO FORMS.  This my friends, is Jordan in a nutshell!