I'm almost half way through my year in Egypt, and this is not a good thing! I got here on my sixteenth birthday, August 28th, and will leave June 25th I think. I don't know where the time has gone...it seems like just yesterday when I was trapped in an elevator with two HUGE suitcases because I didn't know that you had to manually open the door...
The night I met my family and the rest of the first two weeks that I barly remember because I slept every chance I got...
My first day of school and the realization that for the past month we had been driving up and down the same exact street and I was still lost...
Eating mangoes for every meal untill I could't eat any more...
I now feel a slight sense of rushing and urgency to learn and see all that I can. In some ways this is useful, but also inner caous. I could live in Om al Dunya for years and still not know everything, someday inshallah I will come back and live here. But also with this realization is the thought that I have 5 more months to live here and if you count the days and the hours it is a lot of time! My goal is to make it the best 5 months of my life yet!
This past week I moved to the eleventh grade. I can only wish that I had done it sooner. School will be much better from now on, though school is still school, something nobody likes ;P
We have a mid-year break coming up that is a good two weeks, so that should be nice. I am leaving two days early to go on the Luxor/Aswan/Hurgada cruise.
One of the greatest things I have learned in Egypt so far is patience. The words Malish, Bookra, and Inshallah have been my teachers. When decisions are made last minute, events are delayed, or someone is just too lazy to act upon something I think to myself "malish" whatever. What difference is one hour or two days going to make in the long run? Not much. For this, I thank Egypt.
I am freezing still. I never expected to be cold in Egypt, much less freezing. It rained today and yesterday and as much as I miss it I still wish it to go away because being wet+cold is even worse! I have decided that my body temperature is out to get me and will make me uncomforably hot or cold wherever I go!
Our mid-year orientation went quite well, even though my hope of going out of Cairo (and by that I mean out of greater Cairo) was disapointed. I was quite inspired by the large amout of opportunies that were mentioned and by others stories. We all froze there as well, though I was better off then most because my brillant mother convinced me to bring 6 sweatshirts/jackets for 2 and a half days! There was this room that worked just like an amputheater and was AMAZING!
Everybody should check out Elle's blog at: http://ellea-ajasminekeeper.blogspot.com/2010/01/coffee-joy.html
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