August 27, 2007

I took the metro this morning with Janan and went downtown to Tahrir to have a look around AUC. I’m so glad she knows her way around. The AUC campus is really small especially compared to the UW campus but it’s a nice change from enormous Cairo. AUC has different campuses and Janan showed me around. I was supposed to have an AUC ID to get in, but Janan knew the guards and they let me in. Then we tried to go to the library but the guards wouldn’t let me through. So I went to get an ID but my name wasn’t on the list. So I had to go to the ISSO office and show them my acceptance letter and receipt. But they said to go back and tell the ID office that I’m and ALI student. Apparently, I’m not a year long international student even though I’m no an Egyptian and I’m staying until June. Oh well. Then I didn’t have the uber official receipt and would have to go back to the ALI office but we had already been to that campus and the guards were making fun of us. So I decided just to wait until orientation on the next day. I took the metro back to Maadi…ALL BY MYSELFJ while Janan went to see her uncle. I thought I would try to walk home but got totally lost haha. That’s what I get for walking around in a place without labled streets. But I found a cool fountain in a roundabout ….if that counts? And I made my way back to the metro. At least I could do thatJ And had lunch at Cilantro. It’s a really nice food café and it has wireless so I’ll definitely have to come back. I had a chicken roll and it was really good. I even ate all the peppers and tomatoes in side of it!! ( for those of you who don’t really know me, I’m a really picky eater and this is a huge accomplishment for me. Hahah I usually gag when I taste raw tomatoes or big tomato chucks.) It was actually good but it had some super spicy vegetable in it and I about died! Who knows…maybe I’ll be able to handle spicy foods soonJ