I wanna be a dog walker

So as most of you know, I've been in the hospital cuz i was sick. I didnt have time to update my blog with all the wonderful events of my life in Egypt :D

So I'm thinking about going to Dubai for my spring vacation and my cuzin Mohamed already said it would be cool to stay with him and see the famzz which i would love...so now i just gotta ask mama (who should say yes and you're prob reading this...its a totally good idea and we'll discuss it later)

My mom and Gina are coming in two weeks insha-Allah which i am very excited about..partly cuz i want them to bring me things!! hehe but mostly cuz i miss them very much. if only they could bring Leo with them =[

Egypt is really starting to become my home. despite the whole stomach issue, i really love it here and the more i think about going home the more i dont want to, haha. Ive decided to possibly change my profession when i get back? maybe take a break from banking and do something that i enjoy more, maybe involving animals? i dont know. but i just want to do something that ill be like, oh, I'm excited to go to work to see this cute dog, or cat, or to help so and so...i need more purpose in what i do in life even in the money isnt good. and i truly feel like i learned that here.

Im becoming more aware that life in America is nice and all, but not very happy. Yes, i may be on "vacation" here, but at least when everyone isnt working here they see their family and friends and laugh and have a good time and all that...there its like work work work im better than you, i have more than you, yes we're friends but i will do better than you...like every thing is a contest. here people are really my friend, really my family, really care about me...i dunno. maybe i have a false perception of everything but thats how i see it now. lets see if my opinion changes at all.

Decided to take the lovely cupcake quiz for fun!

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I'm living it up to the fullest!

OKay so, theres some new things with me I guess I could say,
1. I switched my room so now I live with Sara! (yay!!!) I love it..this room is on the second floor, its really sunny and happy, and Sara actually talks and hangs out, unlike my last roommate. She was nice, but not my type of roomie.

2. I ate pigeon for the first time at Ahmed and Sally's house. It was good!! I just felt bad because the thing was in the shape of a bird still! Otherwise I enjoyed it thoroughly.

3. I went to the mo'atim last night with Sara and Ahmed. Its like a giant mountain where you can see all of Cairo. Its the second time I've been there and its always great. We had so much fun. We took all kinds of pictures with Sara's SLR camera and they looked so cool. Such a good night!

I'm trying to do all the fun things that I can here..such as going to places I've never been to. Sara and I decided we want to go to Alex, Hurgada, on a Faluka on the Nile, Sokhna- a beach an hour away from Cairo, and other places that I cant remember right now.

Today, I think I might go to the gym in like 45 min because its like a 30 second walk from my dorm and I think thats an excuse in itself to go. Tarek said we might hang out, but I never know..and I might go to City Stars mall because they have a place called Spinney's that has a bunch of cool stuff and I need hangers. SO I guess we'll see what happens! Here's some pics:

In depth this time

So my last two entries were sort of short so i want to make this one an in depth entry of what I've been up to and all my thoughts about life here:

I've been in Egypt for 11 days now, but it feels like its been muuchh longer. I went through my adjusting period already. I'm not going to lie, there was a point in time when I was afraid I was going to start feeling home sick but it passed really quickly. Luckily I have a lot of great ways to keep in contact with everyone from home...such as my magic jack which is a life saver, texting, aim, Facebook etc...I even got my mom to make an AOL screen name so I can IM her and send her pictures and what not. Technology is a great thing when dealing with distance! But I think it was on Monday that I was feeling extremely stressed out because I had gone to all of my classes, and I was afraid I was going to be behind in Arabic and I felt like I wasn't able to talk to people in America enough. I decided to name Monday my final adjustment day.

I came to this conclusion because I was in a really bad mood and didn't have anything that i needed yet, and I had got into a fight with Sami because I was in a bad mood. It was a mess. But then I had my friend Ahmad come and study Arabic with my from my book, and it was very frustrating, but I eventually learned everything I needed to and it put me in a much better mood. Also, I was upset because I kept getting constant headaches every day, and I would always be SO tired, which started to get me worried. But then I talked to Sami about it at night and he assured me that theres so many reasons why people get headaches such as a climate change, scenery change, stress, diff food...and we decided i was so tired because my chronological clock hadn't gotten adjusted to the time change yet.

After that day however, I feel like everything fell into place. I got my groups of friends situated, I caught up in my Arabic class, I learned to sleep earlier and wake up earlier(sort of..this is still in the works) anddd I started to take a lot of vitamins for headaches, energy, and health. I feel ridiculously better now :]

Its almost as if this is like my home away from home now. I got into a routine, and I started doing as the Egy's do hahaha. For example, I've learned to drink my coffee black. I know it seems nasty, but here if you want milk in your coffee, its considered a cappuccino or latte which is more money. My favorite is the McDonald's black coffee for 4.50 pounds. For everyone who doesn't know, one dollar=5.4 pounds. I'm a baller here hahaha...okay what else...Yesterday, I was explaining the sheesha place "Raz" to Mimi and Hesham, and I rolled my freakin R......WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO ME!!!! I didn't do it on purpose. I mean its great when I'm speaking Arabic but that was just awkward, i scared myself! I'm going to come back fobby =[ I bought a really cute cardigan yesterday too from this Egypt version of Zara(cuz zara didnt have any nice ones) ill have to take a pic of me wearing it and post it I LOVE IT...it was 25$ which isnt sooo bad.

I just had my room cleaned by the maids. They washed and swept my floors, dusted and wiped my desk, changed my sheets and spread my bed...God i love it here. Of course I miss it in New Jersey with my fav people =[ I don't think ill be staying longer than the day I have set to come back because I have a lot to come back to. Of course I will most definitely be living it up here in Egypt...
Esp cuz school=NO PROBLEM HERE!
After going to Rutgers for 2 years I can handle any school. Get this, two of my classes I can be absent 12 times until I fail. HAHA! An A- is a 87-92....LOVE ITTT :D

And to everyone in New Jersey...HAVE FUN WITH THE SNOW SUCKERssS AHAHAH :D

if i think of anything i left out ill update
<3

Salams from masr,
I haven't posted in a while, i think maybe because i started school. I have four classes, one colloquial arabic class which i LOVE, and three poi sci classes which are ookaay they wont be so hard hopefully. My arabic class is helping me a lot. I've learned a lot of helpful vocab words already, and some grammar which i definitely needed to work on.

Besides school, I've been seeing friends every once in a while. I haven't been going out as much though because I need to get up earlier than three from now on!! I saw my family yesterday and it was soo much fun. I missed them. Its nice to know that i have such a big family that cares a lot for me and will be there for me whenever i need them (this including my america famz, mA) Anddd what else...we played cochina (cards) and i won most of the time cuz im aweesome (:P) and my cuzin hossam had to make us tea cuz he lost in one of the games. it was reallly funnny..hopefully ill be seeing them at least once a week isA! I love my family time. And the home cooked meal that my tunt amina made was amaazing i loved it :]

Today i went to chilis i donno how to spell that with ahmad hatem and sara, and then we went to a store to get school supplies. that had really cool stuff and for cheap. i got a super cool winnie the pooh cup and some cool folders and stuff. Andd then we went to a sheesha placee and chilled for a bit. Its 4 am now and i have class at 11:30...ill have to pencil a nap into my schedule later hahaha

Tomorrow is ABesque(i abreviated it for fun) with a bunch of people ii thinkkk....should be fun! ill post pics up from today and isA tomorrow soon! Miss everyone in america<3



p.s i didnt realize i had 5 followers shwweeet :D