Horsing

So, hello! I've had a moderately fulfilling and productive weekend? I think? Let me start with Thursday (which is my Friday): I watched a disney movie in Arabic, and it was less fun than I hoped. I wanted to be drinking some chocolate milk, and couldn't find any at the store, and was hot and tired, etc. Then, I thought that there were plans to go out to eat at a fish restaurant. There were, but it turns out that no one cared enough to let me know the details (I'm being dramatic, it wasn't such a big deal). I went to dinner at the dorm (dinner is always literally like bread and jam), hoping to see someone I knew who was going out. I didn't, but I ended up sitting and having a good time and getting invited along for other plans. So!

Thursday night I went out with Maryland people (as opposed to Texas people) to a bar, under the guise of 'watching the game' (some football nonsense). We went to a bar that I didn't want to go to, since Texas people were elsewhere. Well, it turned out for the best, since pretty much everyone in our program (including Americans from our dorm not in our program!) showed up at this bar, and we turned the entire upper floor into a massive dance party. It was pretty sweet, not gonna lie. Dancing! We had so much fun. Texas people showed up, hung out a bit, and then left. Oh well! I had a very good time, and went to bed quite late.

Friday morning I got up (late) and rushed to go meet people and go to the beach! I was going with the same people I went out with the night before, and it turned out to be another awesome time. We went with this group of Egyptian guys who all know each other through Rotaract? Rotary? Something like that. They were all just this big group of jokesters, and one of them had a beach house at some private beach thing (like a little village of beach houses, they are pretty typical resort villages but Egypt-style). We got to hang in the house and swim in the amazing sea and lay on the beach, it was so lovely. The water was the most beautiful blue! And there were so many waves, it was like being in a water park wave pool. It was a long day (of course we didn't actually leave Alexandria until like 2 hours after our given departure time...and didn't arrive at the beach for another long chunk of time...), but very relaxing. I felt a little weird since I didn't know any of the guys and since I'm already socially awkward having to do everything in Arabic just makes things even more awkward (if that is even a possible thing). But, oh well. It was a good experience to have.

That night the guys invited us to a private party at some amazing club, and I almost went but decided at the last minute to stay home and sleep. Which, while a good decision, probably wasn't the best (I heard the party was ridiculously awesome). Oh well, next time! I hope there'll be a next time!

Saturday I felt quite social (since I had hung out with the same new group for two days), and wanted to go out somewhere but ended up staying in and 'doing homework' (haha oh I'm so bad at school and caring). I did laundry, read a lot (not for school), had an epic nap, ate lots, took a walk, and even hung out and watched TV with two of the Egyptian girls on my floor (they are both like RA type people, one is like the head RA for the dorm) and some Americans. It was fun.

Oh! There are new people here! A whole shipment of new Americans just arrived, I think they are from Georgetown! Oh no!!! Well, it remains to be seen exactly how that has affected their personalities, and I have decided to give some of them a chance. Anyway.

In OTHER news, today I finally went to this shopping district called Ibrahamiyya. Everyone else seems to have been there a million times (and everywhere else, too). Seriously, it's getting pretty ridiculous. People are always talking like we've been here forever, which I guess it has been a few weeks but still. Whatever. It was alright, I didn't buy anything but I scoped out the area and found a supermarket that is not a taxi ride away! Points for me.

So, this has been kind of fragmented and scattered and really long, so I think I'll go. I've got homework, a little, and some chocolate milk. I also am downloading the first episode of True Blood (I heard it was good), and I rented Ghostbusters from iTunes. Both are taking forever to download, but we'll see. Ok, pictures soon, love and kisses!!!