Settled

We are beginning to settle down into a routine now with our classes at AUC. Started adjusting to the food as well, hopefully McDonald's will only be a special treat to go but the Egyptian food seems filing and spicy enough for me. My Arabic class meets 4 days a week at the early morning hour of 830 and it is really challenging me to speak allot more in class. The teacher is really friendly and it should pick up and move at a really good place because she is going to give us this software that we can practice on. I am also taking a Political Economy class and me and my friend who are in it are still a little confused about what exactly we are studying but it will all work out soon. I am also taking a course on comparative politics in the middle east which looks to be like a really good class as well. I am taking a history of political theory as well which seems to be a very good discussion class and a course on Egyptian government. In the Egypt Gov. course we selected the State or opposition side to represent in future class discussions. I picked the state which should be most interesting I think.

The beginning of the semester has been very fascinating to watch so far. Most teachers barley bother to have class on the first day, but it didn't help that the Africa cup final was later that evening. Teachers put massive amounts of emphasize on class attendance and tardiness. From what I remember going to Cairo American College many of the Egyptian students were often late to class. Though probably the reason most people were late for the first two days of classes was because of the insane design of many of the building on campus. Many long minutes have I stood in front a "map" of the building to not even find the class room on it, but the people on campus have been really help full in helping me find my classes.

The Tuesday break made it feel like the weekend and we had barley while we had barley even started classes. We went and got haircuts down in Maadi and did errands so the break was defiantly nice but we are still in the midst of fighting over laundry machines with the other residents on the girls side. Speaking of laundry go to go change my clothes our from the barbie doll sized washers!!
Brianna Lehnert