Thursday May 8th
Today’s big event for me was my work for the DDC. After Arabic in the morning I spent my six hour break working at the DDC. I haven’t really started working on my summer project yet, which I do want to start soon, but currently the DDC is trying to get a grant from the IRDC to research adaptation to climate change in Egypt. This isn’t want I want to focus on as it is already accepting that climate change will happen and that humans will simply have to cope with it. I believe that the effects can still be turned around. Is this naïve, maybe? But I pray it’s not. The other thing that I learned from this work is that I know very little about climate change. I sometimes wish my major gave me more relevant job working skills like engineering, otherwise I don’t think I have any marketable job skills and will never get hired. That is one thing I am going to try and change this summer.
For dinner we ate at Dido’s, because well its cheap. This time though, JP was finally able to convince his roommate to come out with us. I enjoyed this because we normally only associate with other study abroad kids and talking with an Egyptian, even if it was only small talk was a nice change of pace.
At night we went down to the Metro Movie Theatre to watch Iron Man. I was actually quite impressed by the quality of this movie. Although it was a little predictable and the writing wasn’t all that evocative, it was still a fun movie. They wove in themes of weapon-sales and American hegemony deftly into the plot without being over-the-top. I enjoyed it and would probably watch it again. The funny thing was that many of the terrorists in Afghanistan spoke Egyptian Arabic, which was kind of awkward when we were the only white people sitting in an all Egyptian movie theatre. But the Egyptians just laughed at the dialogue, and didn’t seem to get upset at their portrayal. I wonder if the director thought about how Egyptians would think of the movie.
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