Just an update

Nothing to exciting to update about... Lots of homework...

Oh, however, my motherboard (isn't that something only in bad sci fi movies?) in my computer crashed. Hopefully, through a series of lucky circumstances and some hard work from three wonderful people, I'll have another computer by this weekend. There IS a Mac re-sale store here with a genius bar, however, since it takes a whole month to ship in parts from Dubai, it was too big of a bargain to try to get it fixed here.

WHICH, having a computer is somewhat essential because I have my massive 10 page research paper ALL IN ARABIC due next week before my trip to Cairo. YIKES! Hopefully, it'll be fine.... I'm probably going to spend all day at an internet cafe doing research. I'm focusing on the conflict in France over Muslim women's clothing (the niqab, the "burkini" and the hijab) and whether the French truly feel that it isn't "French" to wear these types of clothing.

But without a computer, I probably am around more mentally at home. I've been heading to bed by 11 because it's FREEZING here now. Well, freezing is in the 50s and 60s. But when it's raining and you don't have sufficient winter clothes, it feels much much colder. Central heating just isn't happening here... I'm not sure if it's not cold enough yet or what, but the buildings are definitely much colder than they probably should be.

So, nothing exciting.... I'll be back in Springfield on Dec. 20th. So exciting!