homesickness

 So currently I have nothing better to do than sitting in my flat feeling homesick and doing homework(the latter not being prioritized as it should).

At AUC we now have swineflue vacation, thanks to the Egyptian state's extreme paranoia :0P, and since I've allready spent sufficent amounts of Egyptian pounds on Dahab I'm not going to travel anymore and therefore I'm sitting here allllllllll byyyyy myyyseeelf feeling homesick...

Not only that, but I also still have a tonn to do to arrange my schedule here at AUC. I still haven't my full cours load, I still haven't gotten any answers from the administration on this, I still haven't heared anything from my current professors about what to do during the swineflue vacation, I still haven't heard anything from AUC New York about my payments to them and what's left for me to pay, and I still don't know how to get my student visa because that's depending on all the latter point I've allready mentioned AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! AUC Administration SUCKS!!!!!! 

So what I try to do is; do my home work, read, go out and eat with friends and not think about my boyfriend(who I miss deeply) autumn leaves, hikes in the mountains, administration that works and norwegian food.... I miss you all back home!!!

Dahab 4 life!

So I've just returned form Dahab and it was EXCELLENT! simply fantastic. We stayed at a pretty shabby place(from the 18 to the 22 of september) called the penguin village, where there was only saltwater in the showers and sinks, and the paint was falling of the ceiling. But for the money(900 egyptian pounds) and all that we got with it it was great. We got a bus ride to and from Cairo, room with breakfast, bedouin/camel excursion, camel ride to the blue hole to go snorkling, trip up mount Sinai with a visit to the St Catherine Monastery. I however didn't go to mount Sinai and St Cat. because I had scratched my foot on some corals the day before :0(

Dahab was great non the less, we lived right by the sea over which we could see Saudi Arabia!!! Thay had great shisha there and beer, food etc was affordable (actually quite cheap in Norwegian standards). We could swim or walk right into the sea and look at the amazing coral reef the got there, with all sorts of beautiful colored fish. Speaking of which; the fish there was so good, I had see food every night hehe

My favorite thing about Dahab was the chilled atomosphere, the nice prices and the azur blue ocean. I would definitely recommend Dahab to everyone!

Pictures from Cairo

They have some sort of secret identity cereal in Egypt...

such a hassle

Oki so sorry for the late update, but the school here is incredibly unorganized!!!

I have had, and still has, such a hassle to get things done around here. First there was a problem with me getting into the Non-degree graduate program(I couldn't prove that I spoke english, sufficiently!?), so I hade to take an english test... Then when that was taken care of, they now won't let me take more than 3 graduate courses, when my Uni. back home demands 4, and currently I only have 2... uuuuuhhhhhh!!!

On top of that; it's impossible to find anything or anyone on campus, it's like a huge maze!!!! Even teachers still gets lost after having worked there for a year??!! and here is the local problem to the situation: egyptians will give you directions even if they don't know where things are...(it's considered unpolite not to, so cab-drivers will usually ask about 5 people for direction before finding the correct way to drive, and they bitch about it too)

The amazing thing about the AUC is that it is very pretty on the outside, but extremely unorganized on the inside... But hey, the proffesors seems okey thought....

My room :0)

So I've settled in to the Zamalek residence at room 430, it's about 20 metre square. I'm sharing it with this great girl named Alex, we get along just fine :0) See photos for more morevivid imagery.

Sushi in Cairo

So like I've said I was lounging in the lobby and I've started meeting people, for the most part egyptiens who worked and lived in Zamalek and were students at AUC. I got to know a lot about different aspects of this place; where to go and that stuff... In the end I was invited to  eat sushi with them and it was okey actually(the fish I mean). Later on I was also invited to go clubbing, since Cairo apparently lives mostly by night and especially during Ramadan, but at that point I was completly exhaust so I went to bed... sometimes I'm such a party pooper... :0P