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recrudescence at 01:13am on 31/05/2008 under egypt
recrudescence at 01:13am on 31/05/2008 under egyptOH HAI I AM IN ALEXANDRIA NAO
And because it's late here and I'm both busy and lazy, this entry will consist of cut-and-pasted info from an email I just sent to La Actriz.
There are seven girls and two boys in the program, one of whom hasn't arrived yet. We just got back from getting a brief tour of the area, and we stopped at an outdoor hookah (or, rather, shishah; no one calls it hookah here) bar to chill for a bit.
My roommate is nice--she's twenty-one, goes to Cornell, and studied in Morocco for two months. She's also taken Arabic classes, so she's teaching me, little by little. Not everything I learned off my audiobooks is correct (apparently the way they taught me to say "I don't understand" means "I'm retarded"), so my plan is to ask a lot of questions and write everything down to make sure I get it right.
One of the girls who had my apartment during the last session was moving out when I moved in--her name's Jennie, from England, and she left some stuff behind, like food and water and books on teaching. However, she took the leftover toilet paper, which I realized when I was on the toilet. Fun times. The poor girl said she'd never been able
to make the fans work, and when I told one of the program coordinators, he just pulled the short chain on one of them and voila! So apparently she was here and month and didn't know how to ventilate
herself. Heh.
But my roommate and I each have our own room, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a living room. It's quite decent. Oh, and one of the places I had a phone interview with wants me to come in for a second interview. Doh.
More later! We have an orientation tomorrow evening, and my roommate and I plan to get some more shopping done during the day. I miss you all (even though there's a learning lab here that's open 24/7 and has wireless).
And because it's late here and I'm both busy and lazy, this entry will consist of cut-and-pasted info from an email I just sent to La Actriz.
There are seven girls and two boys in the program, one of whom hasn't arrived yet. We just got back from getting a brief tour of the area, and we stopped at an outdoor hookah (or, rather, shishah; no one calls it hookah here) bar to chill for a bit.
My roommate is nice--she's twenty-one, goes to Cornell, and studied in Morocco for two months. She's also taken Arabic classes, so she's teaching me, little by little. Not everything I learned off my audiobooks is correct (apparently the way they taught me to say "I don't understand" means "I'm retarded"), so my plan is to ask a lot of questions and write everything down to make sure I get it right.
One of the girls who had my apartment during the last session was moving out when I moved in--her name's Jennie, from England, and she left some stuff behind, like food and water and books on teaching. However, she took the leftover toilet paper, which I realized when I was on the toilet. Fun times. The poor girl said she'd never been able
to make the fans work, and when I told one of the program coordinators, he just pulled the short chain on one of them and voila! So apparently she was here and month and didn't know how to ventilate
herself. Heh.
But my roommate and I each have our own room, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a living room. It's quite decent. Oh, and one of the places I had a phone interview with wants me to come in for a second interview. Doh.
More later! We have an orientation tomorrow evening, and my roommate and I plan to get some more shopping done during the day. I miss you all (even though there's a learning lab here that's open 24/7 and has wireless).
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