Heading out after a morning/early afternoon of baking. I'll be in Alexandria from now through Sunday night.

Stories when I return, hopefully.

I learned a valuable lesson this evening…

Don’t buy chocolate bars on a warm day! *laugh*
I wanted a snack after class and I ended up with some really mushy chocolate.

On the topic of food, I’ve had a special request to make Molasses Cookies for Darren’s going-away party on Monday night. So, I’ll be baking again on Thursday morning/early afternoon since I’ll be gone at the MCC retreat from Thursday night – Sunday night.

Our friends Annie and Hashim asked for the cookies, so I’m happy to make them. I just need to do a bit of shopping Thursday morning to get ingredients. Hey, it’ll get me out of bed at a decent hour!!

Teaching went really, really well today. I taught my best lesson in the past 3-4 weeks. The topic was “the language of gossip and rumour”. Yes, thanks to me a group of Egyptians can now say bad things about their neighbors, friends, and co-workers (in English). *grin*

The class really got into the language we were using like “you’ll never guess what I heard”, “promise you won’t tell anyone”, “my lips are sealed”, and “I’m all ears”.

“I’m all ears” was a great one to do. There was a bit of confusion, so I ended up trying to demonstrate having big ears by putting my hands up on either side of my head. That was reasonably effective and we also discussed Dumbo the elephant. So silly!

Lots of studying today. Oh my, the studying. *grin*

I'm getting ready to teach Wednesday afternoon and also for my Arabic tutorial on Wed. night

But I did take a few minutes to check out my Detroit/Michigan news in the Free Press and what did I find???
An article, about Genesis, the church I used to attend and still keep tabs on through friends in the area.

Check it out!!!

Long day at class today (10am-9:30pm) so I rewarded myself with some ice cream. In the stores, there aren't really the cheap quarts of ice cream like in the U.S. It's either ice cream bars or "premium ice cream". The premium stuff is really tasty, but fairly expensive at 15LE for about a quart. That's about $2.50 --Darren and I discovered this really rich chocolate mocha type made by Nestle. Yum!

Today it was really hot out, even when I came home from class at 9:30 -- we had an extra observation of one of the "real" teachers at ILI.

Planning to do some lesson plans and Arabic study on Tuesday.

Is everyone out there really busy? I've been getting emails from my core group of folks (parents, David, and a couple of others), but not many comments in the journal or on pictures. Am I getting boring? *frown*

Nah, never!!!

*laugh*

My 4 major accomplishments for today were:

1) doing my assignment for class that is due on Monday
2) going to church
3) making garlic cheese bread
4) burning a couple of CD's for Darren

So, it's been a fairly quiet day. This week will be busy. This week will be a bit hectic, getting ready to be gone Thursday afternoon through Sunday for MCC Retreat.

Off to bed...