To everyone (like 2 people) who cared and were concerned about me... Thank you! I'm fine.
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Harry Potter... SO good. I cried twice. Bet you can't guess when! Well... I mean of course you CAN guess but you'll get it wrong. Yeah.
Cairo is so fun. I saw the pyramids for the first time yesterday... I was miles and miles away but they STILL looked immense. We were up on the 36th floor restaurant of the Cairo Ramses Hilton, right on the nile, and the view was just gorgeous. Cairo is really polluted so it was hazy but it was still amazing. And right out in the distance, in the center of the view, were the Great Pyramids of Giza. Wow... pretty cool! Going to get a closer look tonight (and hopefully a piece of it for Nate).
Myspace is so lame. I have been a member for less than a day and I have had 30... yeah, that's right, THIRTY random friend requests from retarded "cool" kids with a picture of either some fake hot girl that's not really them or of Tinkerbell, or some random emo-angled contrast-messed-up lame ass amateur shot, and who apparently have way too much time on their hands. I guess I don't see the point. At least on thefacebook you actually KNOW these kids. I thought that's the way it was on myspace but I guess not... Haha how lame, I can't believe I actaully joined and am a PART of this now. The point is though, if I actually KNOW you please add me as a friend on there. I for one do NOT have that much spare time on my hands. Haha.
Salem!
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Salem!
Made it! My first day in Egypt has been pretty interesting, although I've spent a LOT of it sleeping and reading... stupid jet lag. But it's been fun. You thought driving in New York was exciting? HAH... come to Cairo! They really don't even use the lanes, they drive BETWEEN them as well, on the sides, all around... just crazy. I was already almost hit by a car walking around last night, haha... I was walking across a crosswalk, they had a red light, and the guy wasn't even looking at me. Just kept on going! I put my hand on the hood of the car and pushed myself away before the guy actually stopped, it was pretty exciting. But yeah, it's all been pretty exciting so far. Am I having culture shock? I like it.
OOOH I also got drunk on the plane from Switzerland, it was great! I was speaking German to all the flight attendants and when they asked me what I wanted to drink I simply asked for a "weisswein," she poured it and said "Voila!" and that was that! Oh man I love Europe. Haha. And I'm still such a lightweight.
When I wasn't sleeping or getting drunk I was reading my lovely new book... Half Blood Prince is so good so far, I'm only half way done, I think I'll go read it now until Mike gets home!
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Hello from 42nd and Broadway. Haha, I know, right? I didn't know I was coming here either. I missed my flight out of JFK so I'm stranded here until maybe tomorrow or tuesday. I'm not complaining, I love New York. I'm staying with a friend in Brooklyn which is really cool, I've never really explored outside of Manhattan until now. PLUS I get to be here for Harry Potter and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory now! YES!! I didn't get to see it tonight but maybe tomorrow if I'm not leaving... I'm still confused as to if I am or not... but oh well. As much as I'd love to stay and do stuff until Tuesday I miss Mike more every day. I need to get out there. We'll see what happens....
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Au revoir everyone, I got some big jars for sand so when I get back I can put it in vials for people. Limited supply!
I'm so excited... I KNOW I'm going to forget something though. That's the way it always goes, isn't it?
Plane leaves DIA at 11:30. I've been up since before 6 and it can't come soon enough!
Oh, and Team America is freaking hilarious. I hope to visit Bakalakadaka Street when I get to Cairo. Hahaha.
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Random weekend:
- Decided to go camping with the Fam and the Church.
- Decided to end the camping prematurely and go home with Tom.
- Decided to go to Texas with Tom. Got home an hour ago! Haha. We drove for like 27 hours straight, it was pretty great. It felt at some points like we had been in the car for many consecutive days, especially after waking up from a short nap. Really really weird feeling. It was a fun trip though, Tom got to see Dallas and go to two new states, and I got to be done with all that stuff.
Three days... Time seems to be moving SO slowly and yet so quickly at the same time, I can't really describe it... I think the quickly part comes from the fact that I'm LEAVING in three days and I'm not ready, and it seemed like such a long time ago so recently. But right now time seems to be standing still, I think that can be attributed to the fact that I've pretty much been awake for 48 hours minus a few naps. I'm lost in time. I was thinking about giving the bird to Mountain Time and moving straight to Cairo Time... I think I'm too tired though. Bed is sounding good and I don't know how much I feel like waking up at midnight. Yeah, I think I'll pass... Maybe later though.
Upon further inspection, I AM going to. I'm gonna take this opportunity to see some Greeley friends before I go to Egypt. Who needs sleep...
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I just woke up from the weirdest dream EVER.
I was on some kind of worldwide youth trip, and we were in Tokyo, where we had some city wide scavenger hunt. It was a really long dream of a bunch of kids running around Tokyo doing random tasks, kind of an amazing race kind of thing, but the one that woke me up was thus:
We all ran up to this temple looking place, into a serene Japanese garden courtyard. In it there was a section of stylized wooden wall, about 8 feet high and 20 feet long, with holes in it above dishes in the dirt around the wall. In these dishes were leeches, and on the leeches were monks, and on the monks' faces were goat heads from goats on the other side of the holes. The necks were cut open so their guts were totally covering the monks faces, smothering them. While we saw this, we had it explained to us that this was an ancient Japanese relaxation tradition. You lay with a leech attached to your supriliac (right above your hip bone) being smothered by these goats, then from atop the wall a jet of water is issued (I don't remember from where, I think monks were dumping it) that strikes the partially severed goat head and knocks it off, and clears your face of the guts and the mud. We all had to do it. I was pretty freaked out, of course. We all ran up to the wall, and saw these little dishes with these "leeches" in them. These were not like any leeches I'd ever seen but I thought nothing of it. They were flat, green, round or elongated things with one to several round eye things floating in their mass, and a wide eel-like mouth opening and closing, waiting to bite on. These things were like 8 inches across at least, with a mouth to match. This is relaxing? I asked a monk which eel/leech he would choose and he pointed to a very round one with one eye, next to a not so pretty one which he said to poke in the eyes to get it to go away. I laid down and was very scared, I felt it biting on but it didn't hurt at all, and then out of the hole came the guts. My face was covered and I couldn't breathe or see at all... I just waited for the water but it never came. 30 seconds or so later I ripped the guts off in fear of suffocation and the water hit me in the face.
And that's when I woke up! Haha I'm sure it was a lot crazier actually LIVING that. Those leech things had a lot to do with me seeing War of the Worlds late last night, I'm sure, which, by the way, is an AWESOME movie. VERY scary!
Today I'm going to Columbine (yes the HS where people got shot) probably with Tom the Swiss. Should be fun!
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