Day 114

Monday May 12^th

Monday means another exciting day full of classes. I showed up to my Arabic class before the designated starting time, which was a nice change from yesterday. Class went okay, I wasn’t on my A-game but I wasn’t off my game either. After class I enjoyed the cheap deliciousness of K-tah, where I told Mrs. Cahalan’s infamous Descartes bar joke. I enjoyed it. After that I endured another awful class of Ivan the terrible where I just can’t seem to stay awake. Even if the material interests me, I think the format is just conducive to not paying attention. I was able to rally for my Art class where I stayed awake and focused the entire period. This might be because of my nap earlier or the large amounts of Pepsi I consumed. After colloquial Arabic I returned to the hunt for apartments and came up unsuccessful as the guy wanted more money then we were willing to pay. Oh well, the search continues tomorrow.

After getting some Chinese food for dinner and doing my Arabic homework, I started doing some research for the DDC and trying to understand climate change in Egypt. Lets just say the situation looks grim. The DDC is trying to research what can be done to not mitigate the effects of climate change but to adapt effectively to these changes. I can’t really blame them for accepting the fate of climate change, because they don’t produce enough of the GHG to make a difference in the global temperatures. They really need America, China, and India to climb on board if they want to mitigate the effects.