getting adjusted

Hellooo,
Apparently I've had a lot of people actually reading this, so I'm gonna continue to update it every day, or at least try to. Before I forget it, the word i was talking about was atomayamate. Atomaya is a city in egypt where my friend is from and i was telling him how i have no roommate yet and hes nice so he was like ok ill be your atomaya mate (i prob spelled that so wrong) but anyways khaled if you're reading this...best made up word ever its fun to say haha.

So today i actually woke up on time around 10:00AM, and I went to walk around the campus. I got a lot accomplished actually. I got my ID card made and activated, I made my email and activated it, I schedule for my classes, met with an arabic professor to see which arabic i should be in (he placed me in 110 instead of 109 and i hope i dont fail it!), and i figured out the bus schedule. And I saw Farah briefly in the morningg...and then Hesham and Mimi came and we ate and hung out. I signed up for some campus activities...theres this one thing i signed up for where i pair up with a person who is a native of egypt to practice my arabic-it would be such a great help. and I also signed up for something where the english speaking students teach the faculty basic phrases and words in english so they can get by better. both are such great ideas!
I also have to mention that the AUC is like a maze. Everything is hard to find and you have to go on a scavenger hunt to find it. Every once in a while i would ask for directions and I would get the general location..not exact..so i eventually found my way to those places. BUT, when its time to go back to them i definitely wont remember how. The first day of classes which start sunday is going to be a huge challenge.

Later on i went with Mimi and Hesham to her house and we rest and talked because we were so tired from the rough morning...and then we went to go eat at Didos, this italian restaurant- I got speghetti :D And thennn Mimi and Hesham and I went back to Mimi's to watch Friends. I got stuck in her bathroom...that was pretty funny hahahaha :}

So while ive been here so far I've noted things that i was like Only in Egypt def:
1. Hesham pushed a car parked in front of Mimi's car so we could get out ( i have a picture)
2. We saw a movie that translated to "sensations" in English hahaha. It was the dirtiest movie ive ever seen in Egypt, and at the end we found out one of the actresses was sitting in the movie theater with us the whole time, and everyone acted like it was normal!
3.Everything that comes to Egypt broken gets fixed. For example, my face clears up, my hair gets healthy, and my microphone on my computer which hasnt worked any time ive ever tried to use it, suddenly worked. Its amazing...but its Egypt

ill add more soon

so the pictures: a few are of my dorm (dont mind the tampon box), one is with me and someone i met that I call Friday- when i was out with Farah and one is of hesham pushing the car infront of us(something ud appreciate gina) and one is of me smoking sheesha outside in a cafe...notice the heavy clothes- ITS COLD! and i took a picture of a traffic light in egypt..it seems weird to do but trust me..thats not something normal! and people actually stopped at it! Egypt is improving :]

Tomorrow is the big soccer match against Algeria in the African cup- its gonna be like a big deal and if we win Hesham thinks its prob gonna get super crowded...lets see what happens. GO MASR <3