Day 22

February 10^th

Today was a pretty uneventful day and intentionally so. I woke up late and after messing around on the internet looking at the politics and a little bit of information on the middle east, I settled down into a nice day of homework. This didn’t take long as the homework is still relatively easy. I also used the day to go back and review vocab, learning words that I never knew how to pronounce before and listening to them in order to improve my listening comprehension. Hopefully this extra time I put into reviewing will pay off. As for Egypt, they won the African Cup. This is a huge deal for Egypt as the whole country has been brimming with energy until this day. I however did not partake in the festivities and instead went to mass, dinner afterwards (which took way too long) and studied Arabic. I however am really susceptible to getting drawn into news stories about Obama and the Middle East. The former more than the later. I think this is a good indication that perhaps I should go into politics. So the point of this story is I didn’t get as much studying as I wanted but I did have a rather enjoyable night. I didn’t get to see the mobs at Midan Tahrir, the center of Cairo, but I think it might have been safer for me to avoid that in the first place. Soccer riots are generally not the best places to be the night before an intensive day of classes.