FOOD!

One of the things that always excites me about Egypt is the food. Not only is the food delicious, it's also cheap! Take for example my dinner last night at Mohamed Ahmed where seven of us were able to eat dinner for only 55 egyptian pounds which is a grand total of a little less than 10 dollars! But before we even knew the price of everything we were loving the food.

We got foul with garlic, foul Eskandrani (this is foul with tehina and salad on top of it), moussaka (eggplant cooked with tomato sauce), falafel, french fries, salads, shakshouka (eggs cooked with cheese and tomato sause), and grilled white cheese. The restaurant gives unlimited bread to eat these delicious dishes which makes silverware optional :) Another thing about this dinner was that we ordered 7 dishes off the menu, and the dishes are small, but it was still so filling. We couldn't even finish everything. But it makes a lot of sense that Egyptian food is so heavy and still so cheap. It is a third world country so in a way it has to find the most efficient way of feeding everyone. This means a lot of bread and beans and they do it so well.

In Arabic class last week we did a unit on cooking! Yay! More food! So my teacher had the awesome idea of having us cook dinner together. I forget what the name of the dish we made was but it was good, it reminded me of a stew of some sort. For dessert we made baklava!

We were split up into groups, I was peeling potatoes on the balcony, Katelyn was cutting up sausage. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out how to prepare everything with the limited cooking supplies we had. So in this stew we had potatoes, zucchini, sausage, eggplant, a frozen bag of mixed vegetables, onions, and I am sure there was more but I really don't remember. Anyway we put all of that into a pan, added the tomato paste, covered it, and put it in the oven. While it was cooking our teacher made the baklava. All in all it was a delicious dinner and a lot of fun. Although we were all really tired and stressed because we had to get back to do homework everyone had a good time.

Other news:
- Cinema club had its first meeting yesterday and I don't think we could have had more problems. Right so what could be so hard about watching a movie, I mean we had a television available with a DVD player and several copies of the same movie? Okay but when none of the copies of the movie work and then none of the other movies in the movie cabinet right next to the television work there is a problem.  So we were going to watch the movie on my computer, not the greatest but at least we will be able to watch the movie. Oh wait we couldn't do that because the lounge was closing and our director didn't know where his key was to close it when we were done. UGH! But we didn't give up, we borrowed speakers from the university and walked to Jordan's apartment to watch the movie. I was very proud of us for not giving up and going through with the movie night even though we started an hour and a half late. Also I was very happy people stuck around through the whole fiasco. In the end everyone enjoyed the movie, we watched Bolt by the way and it was fantastic!

- Its almost the end of October! I can't believe it! Part of the reason it has been so hard to believe is because it has been 100 degrees here! But hopefully it will start to cool down now. I think it should be in the 80s for the next few days.

- It's AlexFest for the next week or so which means a lot of cool events are taking place throughout Alexandria. I haven't attended any of the events yet but hopefully this week I will get around to it.

That is all for now!

Bye!