Wednesday, May 9, 2007

juice

All I did today was drink juice. well, not all, but I just figured I'd make people who really like juice jealous. juice jealous. ok that wasn't necessary. Actually, today I woke up at 4 to write a paper about ceiling decorations... I'm not a huge architecture fan I decided, but I do like the decoration bits. The amazing thing is, I can visit a lot of the places we study. Like Mashatta, this 8th century Umayyad Palace in Jordan, we went there. On our way to the Amman airport, with an insane Palestinian cab driver who told us all about immigrating to Jordan and his opinions on Iraqis and "ninjas," women in nikhab, whom he refuses to pick up, because men dress as women and rob cab drivers...
Ok but that's not the point. I don't know if there is a point. Oh, Juice. After "finishing" said paper, I went to St. Andrews where I "volunteer" ie hang out with a class of realllllly cute kids for two hours and write check pluses and "supers"on their work, or try in vain to figure out how to get them to figure out the right answer instead of telling them. Like I told Essa "puuuuuppy," but instead of figuring out it's spelled with a "u," he just changed P-O-O-P-Y to P-U-O-O-P-Y. oh well.
so after that, classes blablabla. juice number one for lunch: fresh grapefruit. it was pulpy and good. mmmm. Then arabic class, after which I needed a second juice, peach. Then to arabic class number two. after that, I went to the buSSy project play. It's a bit like the vagina monologues, but written by AUC students, and with an Egyptian twist. My friend Reem was in it, she was really good. Afterwards, Kameliya and I took a cab home, then stopped at the juice stand. I got mowz bifrowla, ie. strawberry banana, that has some crazy other name like akhakhfiya or i dunno... juice here is so good. I also bought a bottle of peach juice. Usually I ONLY get aseer asb, sugar cane juice. It's so refreshing and they have these cool machines that they run the sugar cane through and mmmm. So then I came home and wrote this and now I will pass out, because i woke up at 4 to write about vine motifs and stucco decorations.