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Around Egypt

Wed October 14th – Fri October 16th Weekend in Cairo!!! Train from Alex –> Cairo –       None of the computers at the station were working = no tickets = problem –> by some miracle one another Middlebury kid (VERY advanced language skills) showed up –> under his direction we took another train to another station […]

Some More Smithie Commentary on Female Culture: Not sure I completely get it yet…

Harassment It happens here. Most of the time it is easy to ignore it, but sometimes it gets to you. Most of the time it is just inane commentary from young guys, “Hello, welcome to Egypt. What is your name?” etc. But when it happens more than five times in an evening – enough already! […]

Also!

October 3rd (P.S. it is OCTOBER and I have been in the Middle East for THREE AND A HALF MONTHS!!!) So, fabulous weekend all aroun Thursday went on a cultural excursion with a bunch of the girls in the program. Basically we had a cooking tutorial with a chef in the kitchen of a Maronite […]

Zuzu in Jordan, Zizi in Egypt, Zoe at Home…

Everyone else updates their blogs all the time! I feel like a bad traveler… So: Sept 4th (Cairo interim between Amman and Alexandria!!) So things are going really well here! Mohamed’s friend picked me up and even had flowers for me! She helped me get settled here at the hostel and then passed my name […]

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August, 31st Yes. Have not updated for a while. Where have I been all summer? See below: I made great friends. First off, my roommate (“B” [I’m not sure if naming names in blogs is weird or not so I’m going to go with initials until I conduct deeper research in blog etiquette]) and I […]

Here’s a bit of catch-up!!

Thursday 25th – Sunday 28th = Mini Trip to the South!!!   Class –> left for mini trip by early afternoon!!! The program offers this trip to both the advanced and beginning/intermediate groups but on separate weekends so there were just 15 of us.   First night we camped in the Dana nature reserve in semi-Bedouin […]

Day Trips around Jordan!!!

Friday, June 19th Today we took a day trip to a town called Macaba and to the Dead Sea. –       left early –       stopped at tourist type place (forgot name) with Roman history; could see the dead sea in the distance –       rocky desert –       hilly –       windy roads –       scattered brush –       went to […]

I’m here!!!

So I have arrived in Amman!!! D.C. Orientation in D.C. was great! Very humid but the city was fun t explore for a few days! Got to do a little sight-seeing/hanging out. The hotel was really nice! The flight from Providence was pretty uneventful and short – but it was kinda cool since we were […]