Day 3

Time: 9:00PM

Do you know how long it took me to start this post? Google found the need to put every one of its sites in Arabic. I'm not that good yet.

I woke up this morning and got in the shower. HOT WATER! woohoo! well... kind of. Everything was going great, until the water just completely cut out. I still had soap all over my body, and wasn't really sure what to do, so I just stood there for about 5 minutes waiting until I realized that it's probably not going to come back on, so I just wiped the soap off with my towel and went to class.

We took a placement test today in class. The entire test was in Arabic, so it was hard enough as it was. To make it harder, they had questions like "Underline the Pronouns, Circle the Adverbs, Put a Box Around the Adjectives." Um, seriously? I can't even do that in English, let alone Arabic. It was a good opportunity for me to practice drawing my circles and squares though.

For those of you that wanted to Skype with me while I'm here... sucks for you. They banned Skype in Lebanon. It's a lot cheaper than the phones here, so the phone company got upset that no one was using them anymore so the government made Skype illegal. It probably won't be enforced though, since the government doesn't seem to really care about anything here.

Today I went to some ice cream shop and got NUTELLA ICE CREAM. For those of you who haven't had Nutella, you have to pick some up next time you're at the grocery store, it's amazing.

Here are some more pictures from my trip. The full album is on Facebook.

Remember the crazy cat lady? I saw her jingle her keys to make all the cats come to eat, so I tried it when I saw a cat in the bushes, and like 10 cats came over to me and sat on me. Kinda cool. And kinda gay.

This weird tree at AUB... do the branches grow up from the ground? Or down from the tree? I can't figure it out. They're like roots/branches connected.

People fishing... They have poles that are 15-20 feet long, but they don't reel.