Class and Weekend.

I finally got around to having class this week.
They are actually all really interesting and more challenging than I expected.
My favorite so far is "intro to development", which is about developing third world nations. I think it is the sort of thing that got me into political science in the first place. Three quarters of the eople in the world live pretty crappy lives with little hope for improvement...but I'm sure you've all seen the commercials with the starving kids from Africa, so on to the other classes.
Arabic is arabic and hopefully I will learn a lot of that because that's what I'm here for.
Then there is Hieroglyphics. I really have no reason to be taking it aside from the fact that I want to impress my friends with stuff like this:

So far I'm pretty much just learning the symbols and their basic meanings. It still seems so weird (and it is weird) to use pictures of owls and boots to express how you feel about the world. I didn't even know that they were owls in Egypt. Anyways, it is a worthwhile class and I feel that I can now better defend myself against mummies.

I haven't really made friends with any Egyptians yet, but there are a lot of Norwegians (well, like 15 or so) that are here for the semester too. They are a lot of fun. They sound funny when they talk in norwegian and they have cool names (Thor, Ingeborg, etc)..


And just for fun, here is a picture of the street my dorm is on: