I really admire my teacher. The more I learn from him, the more I appreciate him. He's not so unreachable as to be impossible to talk to, but at the same time he has a strong sense of dignity that is appreciable by everyone who meets him.
These days our classes are mostly us talking about all sorts of random topics, such as the state of the Markaz-ul-Islam fire escape, Fidel Castro, and soccer.
To all the soccer fans out there, recently Al-Ahly, the biggest Egyptian soccer team, had a match with Barcelona. Al-Ahly actually is not a bad club, considering they beat Real Madrid back in 2001 or something like that. And no, Real Madrid wasn't fielding their second-string, at least I don't consider Zidane and Roberto Carlos to be second-string. But to the disappointment of the Egyptians, Barcelona whipped Al-Ahly 4-0. It would have been okay if the game had actually had some intensity to it, but Barcelona fielded all their substitutes and debutantes in the first half. A 16 year old scored and someone else headed in a ball while being completely unmarked. By the second-half when Ronaldinho and co. appeared Al-Ahly was so demoralized they were unable to stage any kind of comeback. Eto'o scored two goals in revenge of Cameroon's loss to Egypt in the African Nations Cup. Of course my teacher had to draw this all back to the decadent state of Egypt i.e. Egyptians lie to themselves, they have no idea what they are actually like.
"There is no life with despair, and no despair with life."
-Mustafa Kamel, the great 19th century Egyptian revolutionary
~Ameer
p.s. I know that was kind of random, so forgive me.
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