Okay, so first, some background.  We had this retarded homework assignment for my Colloquial Arabic class, which was to find several doctors in our neighborhood and go to their offices to ask how much an appointment would be and what their business hours are.  I almost boycotted this assignment because I thought it was stupid and ridiculous, but ( Read more... )

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Well, no exciting weekend story to recount this time!  Instead I got to sleep in till noon three days in a row, and it was glorious.  We literally did absolutely nothing on Friday, except we did watch one of Samantha's movies in the evening.  On Saturday, we did nothing again, but then at night I went to the movies (YAY!!!) with a bunch of other ( Read more... )

Hey everybody!  Guess what I did this weekend?  I went camping in the desert!  It was crazy and totally awesome!  I shall record the details presently.  We left Cairo on Friday morning and met up with our desert guides at the Bahariyya Oasis in the Black Desert.  We transferred all our stuff into their two 4x4 jeeps, and we were off!  First up was ( Read more... )

So, yet again, I had a quite amazing weekend!  Jill and I embarked on Part II of our Fall Break Extravaganza, and this one involved Dahab (yeah, that would be the place that got bombed not so long ago) and Mount Sinai.  We left for Dahab at 5 PM on Wednesday, I think, and after one goddamn horribly long bus ride, we arrived at about 4 AM.  We ended ( Read more... )

So, I haven't updated in quite awhile...and this is partially because I was on vacation in Turkey!!!  It was ridiculously awesome!  This is probably going to be a long post, but I'll try to slim it down as much as possible.  ANYHOW...Jill and I took the red-eye flight from Cairo to Istanbul last Thursday night (it was the cheapest), and we arrived ( Read more... )

Okay, first of all, I want to apologize to all of you who aren't in AIESEC (which would be everyone except Hannah), because you probably don't care very much about what I'm going to write. But I really want to record what happened this weekend so I can look back on it in the future. So here goes ( Read more... )

OMG so guess what??  Evidently I get to go to a national AIESEC conference next weekend!  A NATIONAL conference!  Those things are so ridiculously hard to attend in the United States, and now suddenly one is a requirement for me in Egypt?  Sweeeet.  I'm so excited!  I had to move one of my midterms to Wednesday because we're leaving on Thursday, ( Read more... )

Well, I try to update every week and it's been 8 days or something, so here goes.  There have been a number of exciting developments lately...so read on ( Read more... )