Sunday, January 25, 2015

Mid-year Break Part One

My last final was on Tuesday. I walked out of the final so happy. As much as I love school, the month or so of final exams was not fun. I had a lot of time off intended for studying. Unlike my friends, I didn't spend all that time studying. The problem was that my friends were all busy and I wanted to do things, but everyone was studying. 

Tuesday



After the exam, we waited for the bus which came two hours after the exam ended. Two of my friends and I went over to my friend's house. We went to Pizza Hut and it was the most American place I've been in Egypt. 

Story time: When I was little I LOVED black olives on my pizza. I don't know when or how it started and ended but there was a time where that's all I wanted on my pizza. 

We ordered a supreme pizza. It had a little bit of everything. I'm not a veggies on pizza person, but I decided to try it and if I didn't like it, I'd pick off the veggies. First of all, it was delicious. Second, black olives on pizza is still good. 

We watched a movie and hung out. It was really fun. Cairo is so so big and we live kind of far from each other so it sucks we can't do this more often. 



Wednesday

I borrowed a book from my friend. I read it in four hours. (Little over 200 pages). Then I went over to another friend's house. I don't even remember what we did. We ate, she studied, I borrowed books from her. 

Thursday



Exams in Egypt officially finished on Thursday. My friend and I went to City Stars. We wanted to watch Interstellar, it wasn't playing. We went downstairs to see Horrible Bosses 2, it was VIP and was 4x the regular price. We went back upstairs to see Night at the Museum 3, it was sold out. We waited in line for The Pyramid for about ten minutes and I got so fed up with strangers touching me so we left. We got "Chinese" food from this place called Panda House Express. The food was better than I thought it was going to be. We watched Freedom Writers. If you ever need a movie to watch, that movie is really good. Then we watched Lucy, not as good as I was hoping but still interesting. 

Friday



Etch A Sketch and I woke up early to go to the 10 AM showing of Night of the Museum 3. No one was there. 

Advice: if you live or end up in Egypt and want to go to the cinema. Go at 10 there is no one there. 

We get up to the cinema and we headed towards Night of the Museum 3, when I saw it. INTERSTELLAR

We wanted to see Interstellar back in November, but I had an AFS thing I had to go to. We never ended up seeing it and we thought that since it wasn't there the day before, it was out of theaters. I was so sick of people saying how great the movie was. But holy crap it was so good. I cried like four times, I was not expecting to cry. 

Then we got Cinnabon. Cinnabon is life. 

Yes, there's a Cinnabon under all that chocolate. 

Saturday


Sometimes after being social a lot, I have to recharge my batteries. On Saturday I slept, read, watched TV and movies and relaxed. 

At about 10 ish PM, my host parents ask me to make roz bel laban. I've never made this before, but you gotta try new things. I pulled up my food post and clicked on the roz bel laban link and followed that recipe. I didn't fail! It worked and it tasted good! I was so proud. 



Sunday


I finished my book today. It's called Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. It is a new favorite. I loved it. It was amazing. I cried. I am still feeling all the feels. 

Unable to really do anything due to all the feels of this book, I packed for my trip tomorrow. And now I'm blogging. 


Tomorrow I leave for Luxor and Aswan. These are two cities far south. I will be flying and then taking a boat from Luxor to Aswan. It's five days, I don't know if I'll have internet or not. I don't know exactly what all I will be seeing, but it's going to be all kinds of things very old. Older than all of you, and possibly Jesus. People keep telling me to take pictures, and OF COURSE I'll take pictures. How else am I supposed to make my history loving Grandpapapapapa jealous?

As always, if you enjoyed this post... Wait a minute. The blog is different.

Yes, if you have not noticed, the blog is a little different. The picture that originally tiled the background was taken from Google images. This picture is mine! Yay! Also I made it brighter because before the blog was kind of dark. I also added a What is Abroad Outlook? page and an About Me page so check those out if you want. I'm going to spend some time going through my posts and making tags to organize everything a little, but I'll probably procrastinate. 


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You are awesome and as my sixth grade history teacher says: learn something today. 

Byeeeee

Corie. 

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