A mosque and a museum

So I've been going out more now that we've made some Egyptian/non-GW friends, which is why I haven't been writing as much. Plus classes aren't that exciting to write about (though one of my professors who is super strict about attendance told us he was ok with us using wikipedia as a reference in our term paper).

This morning I had a field trip for my art and architecture class. We went to the Nilometer, this really old structure that was used to measure the height of the Nile. Then we went to the Ibn Tulun Mosque, the oldest still existing mosque in Cairo. It was really cool. We got to go to the top of the minaret. I took a ton of pictures. I'm putting them up on my website right now. I figured out how to record voice tags to pictures I take, which is pretty cool. I can record what my professor says about different structures and whatnot.

Then I met up with Alix and we went to the Egyptian Antiquities Museum. It costs 30 LE for students to get in which isn't bad. But it's only 1 LE for Egyptian students. The actual museum was pretty cool. We saw a lot of mummies and jewelry and cool things. Sadly, you aren't allowed to take pictures there. We didn't stay for too long because we were hungry and tired and we figured we could go again later. The most notable thing was probably the slutty clothes some girls were wearing. Clearly they didn't realize they were in Egypt. Mini skirts and tank tops and cleavage everywhere. It was pretty ridiculous. I get tons of looks and comments when I wear a turtleneck around, let alone tiny little clothes. Some people...

I'm talking to Douglas and Noelle on Skype right now. Douglas wants a shout out because he's an egomaniac. haha. I don't know how I'd keep in touch with everyone without skype. It's so nice to be able to see and talk to people from home for free. Though Douglas just informed me about his bowel movements. Lovely