Twice in the last month I walked to the library in the middle of the night to sit outside and use their public network. No more.
Speaking of the library, I tried to go to work about a week ago and the building was surrounded by troops and armored personnel carriers. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina's employees are occupying the library's entrance and demanding that its director step down for corruption, and I'm getting a welcome break from my internship.
The break's welcome because I've been working on grad school apps all the time. I'm on a regimen of printing out my writing sample and doing line edits on the whole thing once a day. Blugh.
Today my roommate George got stuck in our terrifying elevator, which turns off its light on an automatic 30 second timer after it decides it's arrived where you want to go, sometimes stops between floors, and does this creepy thing where it shudders and its light turns off as it passes the 7th floor. George was only in there for five minutes, but he was stuck in the dark between two floors. I'm never using it again.
I've been kind of surprised at how little the Arab Spring's been used in marketing here, which I guess bodes well for Egypt, but lo and behold:
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| Revolution of the 25th of January-themed Monopoly. |
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| The Jet Fighter on Super Tax, the Scottie on Military Council, and yes, the Batmobile on Tahrir Square. |
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| The Coalition of Revolution Youth and the Military Council cards are like Community Chest and Chance cards. |
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| Six Flags-style new Libyan flag hats for sale. Not quite as gross. The guy who owns the arm on the left is about to ask me "Are you American? What do you want? Are you American?" There rumors of Americans infiltrating the country and stirring up trouble, which is apparently what it looked like I was doing. If he had just asked if I was foreign I would have written the whole thing off to his not liking having his picture taken by tourists. |
Last weekend the program organized a trip to Nelson Island, which French and then British sailors used as a rest and training site.
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| A cute little Life Aquatic-type crab that turned out to be dead. |
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| boats |
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| I never took art history so I don't know the terms for what's going on here, but right? |
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