Well, here it is!  I figured I'd post it in honor of the fact that I'm leaving Egypt in just over two weeks.  I came up with nearly all of these myself--a select few have been borrowed and modified.  Enjoy ( Read more... )

It came out a day early!!!  I thought it was May 2nd, but for some reason they were showing it today ( Read more... )

Hi everyone!  I'm back from Jordan!  It was a great trip and it went really well.  Almost too well, in fact.  I kept waiting for at least one small thing to go wrong, but it never did!  This will undoubtedly be ridiculously long, but I'll attempt to keep it short...ha.  I left Tuesday evening, arriving at the airport 5 hours early because my ( Read more... )

Remember how I said that I thought time would go by ridiculously fast after Spring Break?  Well, I was right.  Al-hamdu lilaah, the weeks are flying on by.  All the exams and papers and projects are piling up, but I know I'll survive them and on May 28th, I'll be on a plane back to the States.  I CANNOT WAIT.  That being said, things have been ( Read more... )

Well, Spring Break is now officially over.  My mom just left to go back to the States, and now I feel all alone and depressed, even though all of my roommates are here and everything.  But the break was so ridiculously awesome!  I mean, seriously!  It was so much better than I ever thought it would be!  I went on a fancy first-class tour of Egypt, ( Read more... )

The title pretty much says it all.  I am officially on break!  Mumtaz!  I believe my mother is arriving in a few hours, and tomorrow our fancy first-class Nile Cruise begins!  We'll be staying in ridiculously nice hotels (and a ridiculously nice cruise boat, I would imagine) and all of it's free for me because my mom's paying.  Ahahaha!  We're ( Read more... )

This was a pretty good weekend.  My roommate practically forced me to come along with her and a group of people to Dahab and Mount Sinai, even though I'd already been.  Her justifications were that we both needed to get out of Cairo and away from all the drama that's been going on in our apartment and floor...which were valid reasons, I might add ( Read more... )

Ahoy!  It's been a little while...thing are going all right, I suppose.  This semester is a lot busier than the last, as far as schoolwork goes.  I mean, I knew it would be this way when I signed up for these classes, but the reality is really sinking in now, and it sucks.  This weekend I wrote 1/3 of my 5,000 word Muslim Brotherhood paper, and it ( Read more... )

Hmm...nothing TOO exciting has happened recently, but I haven't updated in two weeks, so I figured it was time.  I haven't been online a lot lately because my computer crashed--yeah, that was fun.  Various unpleasant adventures ensued...I'll spare you the details.  But it's more or less working again now, which is good.  Hopefully I'll be able to ( Read more... )

Another week gone by!  There have definitely been several highlights...first of all, evidently my dad has been talking to all these senators?  I'm not really sure what's going on--he's been spending lots of time in D.C. going to meetings at the Weather Service and chatting it up with senators Young and Inouye, to name a few.  I think he should call ( Read more... )