Nothing Much

Assalam u alaikum,

Sometimes I get really annoyed with myself. I find myself wasting time, lounging about doing nothing because it's supposed to be my "free day." I was surprised to find out today that I have a holiday (today is Saturday, and usually the only day I have off is Friday). I was initally very happy about that because I wasn't completely finished my homework. However, it soon becomes apparent there isn't very much to do in Cairo besides studying. I finished my homework, slept a couple of hours, then what? I am also seriously thinking about chucking that television off our balcony. I am always having this perpetual pipe dream of being able to watch English Premiership soccer but it is never on. Instead there is this guy droning on and on about Al-Ahly or about the one penalty he scored against Ethipia seventy-five years ago and compound that with the fact that he's talking in ammiya.

In a way I guess it's a good thing. I don't want to be wasting time watching television anyways...argh! I wonder what a television looks like after falling from the eighth floor of a building...

Anyways alhamdulillah everything else is fine. Now the Arabic homework is getting a lot more technical and more focused on grammar rules. Insha'allah everyone keep up the dua's. "I'm gonna need it." (Khadija, Abdullah, Sauleha, did you pick up that little reference?)

I never realized how important it is to draw a map to scale until I saw the Al-Diwan. Totally out to lunch. I thought that Uncle Mahdi and Aunty Nicole's house would be far away, because their house is behind KFC and KFC looked really far away from our house on the map. Turns out they live about 7 minutes walking distance from us. I didn't actually go to their house, but I was exploring a bit and I found all these other restaurants behind Siraj Mall that I never noticed before and one of them was KFC.

Siraj Mall somehow seems like it's even bigger than West Edmonton Mall. I don't know why, because it's rather small compared to Canadian malls, but I guess I'm so used to seeing little corner shops that an actual mall looks like a giant abyss. I also don't understand how they can manage to fit twelve sheesha cafes in one mall (okay, slight exaggeration, but it really stinks in there! And to think that people actually like that STUFF!!! Apparently in Britain, according to Arif bhai, sheesha or hookah is a really big part of the Islamic Campus Cool Cats get-togethers. Since they can't hang out at your average English pub, they all go to the sheesha bar and smoke hooka. I sincerely hope the MSA doesn't get any ideas.)

Nothing else much is happening. This post was kind of pointless, but seeing as thousands of people are reading my blog and are dying for the next exciting episode of Canadians in Cairo, I had to write something!

Pipe dreams.

Ma'salam,

~Ameer