My alarm went off at 7:15. I hit the snooze button twice. Jumped out of bed on the third ring and scrambled to get ready. Ran to the metro and was at the bus right at 9. The bus wasn’t there when I arrived, and I thought I had missed it. Then I saw the large crowd of waiting people. I then remembered that (for no known reason) the bus is never on time on Monday. Lucky me.
The bus finally showed up 20 minutes late and we were off to class.
Arrived to media a few minutes late. Today we were giving our news article presentations. I feel prepared, but nervous to speak in front of the whole class. I was scheduled to be the last to go… however, the class period ended before I could present. I dodged the bullet, but now have to wait in anticipation to do it on Wednesday… not sure which is better.
From there I went to MSA. I didn’t have time to finish the new reading because of the project. I did part of it so I was able to keep up, however it is now just one more thing to do tomorrow. We practiced the new vocab by making questions using the new words.
Did some homework during the lunch break and then was off to colloquial.
We mostly went over congregation of prepositions and the negation of them. We already know the formal congregation, but that is easy when compared to colloquial. I think this is the first time I can say that formal is easier than colloquial. There amount of syllables compressed into a single word is simply astounding.
Caught the bus home and finished Numbers. Did another page of my project. This time it only took two hours... From there I did more of the MSA chapter. This chapter is on calligraphy and is stinking hard.
Anyways, Evan and I decided to go grab some food and headed to one of the smaller fatiir shops in the area. We got a few sausage fatiirs for dinner and sugar fatiirs for desert. They are really delicious, and one of the few foods I like with ketchup.
We were walking back when we got a call from Mike saying we needed to pay for our upcoming trip tonight. That was an unplanned excursion… We hit up the bank near our apartment and walked to find a cab. We ran into Mohammed (a guy from our apartment) along the way. He is a real nice guy who loves to practice his English with us. He is studying to be a doctor at the Cairo Med School.
We had an hour and a half to get to Zamalek and get signed up… so of course Mohammed wanted to rope us into a long conversation… neither Evan or I wanted to offend him but we really had to go.
We finally escaped and took a taxi into Zamalek. Along the way we talked to our driver about the riots that have been happening recently in Zamalek. The Algerian embassy is located in Zamalek and angry Egyptians have been showing up all week to harass the Algerians (all over a soccer match). On one particular night they attacked the riot police. Over thirty people were injured and 13 cars burned or destroyed.
We were dropped in Zamalek and walked to Metro Towers. With some effort we found the tours office and went in. In reality it was an antique shop where the owner also organized tours. It was kinda sketchy, however, we know two people that have used him before with good results.
We paid and went over the details of the trip. Just over 300 dollars gets us a Nile cruise which visits almost all the sights in Aswan and Luxor. I’m excited :).
We walked back towards Mike’s house and stopped in to say hi. Stayed for ten minutes and then caught a cab home. I worked on homework until 1am. Went to bed.
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