Day 124

Thursday May 22nd

Today is the last Thursday of class. A lot of people around here are feeling an emotional mix of wanting to home to the states and a sentimental desire to not leave Cairo. However, I am stuck here for another 2 months, so I am not getting excited about going home and I am not becoming sad about leaving Cairo, because well I am not leaving Cairo. I am starting to think about summer vacation and the people that I will be missing and the experiences I won't have back in Spokane. I guess this is just a fact of life, there are always opportunity costs. Besides, the research that I am doing here is exactly what I want to be doing. It combines my passions of security studies/development/ and environmental protection. Basically it doesn't get much better than that. Plus, whenever I get bored of looking at resource wars, I get to study Arabic and improve those skills... hopefully.
Today was spent in the DDC and in arabic. Nothing much to report and I didn't really get much accomplished. However, the real fun was at night when we returned to our friends, The Beatty's, in Maadi. I love this place. The Beatty's are some of the nicest people I know and we ate and drank like Kings and Queen's in an Officer's Club for the State Department. It was incredible. JP and I, were affirmed in our love America again. Afterwards we played Wii, everything from bowling to Super Smash Brawl, which I really didn't understand yet, and then Guitar Hero. I was a very happy cat.