(the picture is of cairo at dusk after i climbed up a minaret in the oldest mosque in cairo over christmas break! whooo.)
with my rancorous new year's eve blog, but i'm breaking the silence. ladies! let's get back on this thing. things in egypt are rolling along. my job is super busy right now. i'm basically doing two people's jobs right now, but such is life. it's actually chilly here and i'm wishing i had more coats to choose from. i need to go shopping. this is turning into a stream of consciousness blog. i'm going to go with it. the next four months are going to lovely with visitor's in ole cairo. february brings tyler and amber from saudi to visit. i really couldn't be more excited about seeing my brother and sister-in-law. it's been a long 5 months with no family time for the echols. and you all know how obsessed we are with each other. plus, i think tyler's been especially homesick so it'll be good for him too. march brings julia on her spring break from nyu. that's also been a long 5 months of no julia-ellyn time so i know it'll be good. i think she might go into shock in egypt, but hopefully she'll enjoy herself. i know she will. april is robyn from singapore and aaron from baton rouge. i'm so excited to have two of my friends coming at the same time from different places and during my birthday! what a sweet birthday present. and then last (but CERTAINLY not least) becca and alison in may. i am SO AMPED to have you 2 grace cairo with your lovely faces. it'll be sex and the city 3: cairo. just kidding. but seriously, let's take the city by storm. other than that, i'm just about to start arabic classes again for the semester. i'm excited about starting with a new teacher and a new schedule that'll hopefully be more conducive to me not hating my life. the old schedule was just too exhausting week in and week out and really took the fun out of it. additionally, we've started actually hanging out with some legit egyptian friends so conversation practice has been more frequent and more fun. it's nuts to think that i've lived here for almost 5 months. what a crazy but awesome time it's been. it's definitely been harder than i thought, but has also taught me a lot about myself and what i want to do in the next year or so. i'm hoping to end up in D.C. and looking at jobs at the moment. it's hard to try and apply/plan for jobs this early out, but i want to keep some options open. i really miss all of you dearly and cherish any time i get to skype/vid gchat with y'all so hit me up!
i hope you're doing well wherever you are. i miss yo faces like whoa.
love. love. love.
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