Cairo Int'l Airport

I feel like someone just shoved me outside of my comfort zone; oh wait, they did. I was sleeping nicely on my ridiculously long flight from JFK to Cairo Int'l thanks to Ambien when we landed. I've never walked off a plane before onto the runway. That was a first... Then we all CRAMMED into a tiny little bus and were shuttled to a little office thing where no one spoke English (only Arabic). It took me a while to figure out I had to take another bus to get to a different part of the airport. I tried to go sit in my gate but I was kicked out for now and I'm not sure why because I don't speak Arabic. I'm assuming it was because I'm a few hours early for my connection flight to Larnaca, Cyprus..

A few observations I've made so far:

1) Smoking is legal in public (whoa, time to dust off the old inhaler)
2) Wool socks in Cairo are aboslutely not practical.
3) Cairo Int'l barely has working bathrooms but they do have a Starbucks. Proof Sbucks is taking over the world
4) White women traveling alone are interesting.
5) I am NOT in Kansas anymore.

Let the culture shock, begin.

about to embark on a 24 hour journey to Cyprus. WHOA.

one & a half days.

i. hate. packing.

almost there...

leaving in three days. laundry not done. computer sort-of broken. not packed. predicted storm in NYC for departure day. super.

I can't believe the rush of finals and christmas is over. now all I have left to freak out about is moving to a country, that I didn't know was a country until only recently, for about five months. oh and I also don't speak the language. either of them.

almost outta new england

Today, I am in New Hampshire trying to study for finals while battling with intermittent power outages due to the ice storm.

On January 15th I will be here, on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Cyprus for six months. "Studying" Abroad. Let the countdown begin.

i miss my jake and rosie