Yesterday, we had our first day of legitimate classes. Our teacher, Haasna, is wicked hilarious and so much fun. She pronounces Miguel's name as "Meegal" and when asked, "What's your name?" "Curtis" "hahahahahahahaha" Apparently, she thinks my name is Curlis. And naturally, Jimmy is "al Mutahaases" (the specialist). She's incredibly nice but totally tools on us, but we rag on her too and she loves us. During break Caitlyn and I decided to see if we could climb the walls until our group's personal security guards(they have large guns) came and we had to pretend we were just looking for cats...... Also, the Egyptian dialect is so much easier than standard.
Later on, we went to the U.S. embassy. It was somewhat disappointing. We listened to some upper level important guy give us complete BS about what they do and how the U.S. has helped. On a side note, he was probably the tallest man I have ever seen. That night was another late one and Conner and I taught Miguel and Caitlyn to play Hearts.
More class today (We have classes Monday through Thursday, 9 am - 1 pm), interesting as usual. Afterwards, we went to see the American University of Cairo. It's a pretty long trip but the campus is lush with fountains and perfect grass everywhere and some absolutely amazing architecture. It was awful. So much waste and the pretentiousness was just seeping out of the campus. The students were nice, but the typical wealthy students that could have been in any American school.
PS - Balcony party tonight!
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