Archive for June, 2010
Dubai THE DAY CAME, FOR THE MOST AWAITED TRIP OF THIS WHOLE STUDY ABROAD…. You can’t imagine how anxious everyone is, people “miraculously” got over sicknesses and everyone is pumped to leave the dirty clutter of Cairo and get to the illustrious Dubai. It seems like a fairy tale, middle earth or Hogwarts… I can’t even [...]
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Dubai Tomorrow
An epidemic has hit our group… The instructors (our professors) told us that in the five years they have done study abroad; it has never been this bad. Three people have had to go to the hospital, one of them being my roommate. Of the three people who were admitted into the hospital, two may have [...]
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United Arab League!
Today we visited the United Arab League and met with a representative of the secretary of State who was also an ambassador. Honestly talking with him I learned more about the United States and Middle East relations that I had learned in the entirety of my formal education. We discussed issues of administrations, the current [...]
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Thoughts of Revolution
Today was a good day, We had class and watched an old Egyptian movie about the division of classes, sexes in 1960 egypt. It was very interesting. Anyway in class were we learned a lot about the socio-economic condition of Egypt. As you may already know there is no middle class. And from what I [...]
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Excursion to Luxor
i spent a few days away from my blog and I missed my baby The Luxurious trip to Luxor. On Thursday June 3rd 2010, our group left Cairo at 6am to head to the airport for Luxor. Shopping Savyy But before that… we discovered a very upscale Egyptian women’s Boutique. The boutique embodied modern fashion forward [...]
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Egypt Day 5
Hello lovies! Thank for keeping up with my word misspelled stream of consciousness blog! It makes me feel good! Today was a regular school day! Same 9:30 history of Egypt class and then 1:00 Arabic language class. I’m actually beginning to enjoy my language class. Today I used what I learned and spoke to a [...]
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