biblioteca alexandria

Today was a much more low key day compared to the last 3!

I went to bed at about 10 last night and woke up at like 8… darn it.. I really wanted to sleep in lots today but I just couldn’t do it.. so I laid in bed till like a quarter after 11 as did Kristi and lacey.. it was a real relaxing morning for us all =)

At 1130 I went to get lunch with Steph (neighbor across hall) and Kristi and Chaara (the one we spent our time with on cairo overnight) were soon to follow. At 1 we left for our day out. We walked out of the port and got essentially chased by an obnoxious cab driver even though we were ignoring him completely… finally we were able to get away from him though.. something I haven’t mentioned that that is kinda interesting.. I feel like im famous or something here.. every day on the bus the few days whenever we drove places and everyone on the sidewalks would look at us.. the windows weren’t tinted at all.. and they would stare and smile, wave, and occasionally blow kisses at us… weird… so anyways walking down the sidewalk there were woman and their kids sitting there and they smiled up at us and started waving at us it was cute… but its just really weird at the same time… so we got a cab for 10 pounds (2 bucks) to the library, we got there early tried to walk around and look for shops but nothing real good was around so we wasted some time by going into a mcdonalds for water bottles and then to a baskin robins (?!?!) mhmm for Kristi to get ice cream and steph a chocolate shake. Then finally it was 3 the time the library opens on Fridays

So we headed back to the library and instantly got on the computers… the other day when we had our tour there we were told how you cant access emails but they conveniently left out the fact that you cant use ANY chat site…. That included facebook chat.. but I could use the rest of facebook.. well that really sucked because I had planned to talk to my mom for a little bit.. but clearly that didn’t work out.. but I guess in good news I was able to read all 107 posts on the pcc discussion board for the incoming freshman that came in since I was in Greece… craziness! All in all though that was nice because I really wish I could get to know them better like I was able to last year before we get to school.. I think its more comforting that way.. that you can go in and have someone you can kinda trust that you kinda sorta know already.. but I guess that’s not totally going to happen… bummer.

After the library we headed back to the ship had really bad dinner.. tomorrow is our last day in Egypt already! I had originally had a service visit to an orphanage that was supposed to be today but a few weeks ago I had been given a notice that the day had changed till yesterday so I had to give up my ticket since it interfered with my overnight cairo trip. Well somehow I miraculously got a ticket for the second trip there that is tomorrow! One of my “sisters” decided she wasn’t going to go anymore and asked me if I would want to buy it from her instead so of course I accepted the offer so tomorrow im going to an orphanage and then its back to sea for awhile