Apologies and Daily Life

Dear all readers,
I apologize for being a big slacker and not updating my blog for quite some time. If it means anything, my computer charger broke, and I was without a computer for about a week. But finally (thanks to the best parents in the world!) my computer is up and running again!
So, in the past few weeks nothing terribly exciting has happened. We had a Halloween party (I was dressed as a red m and m, and other costumes included Egyptian men from upper Egypt (galabiya, mustache and all), a cat, a ninja, 2 more m and ms, a 20's flapper, the Morton Salt Girl, etc.). I made banana bread, others made chili, caramel apples, and it was quite a night! We even watched a scary movie and I couldn't sleep for 2 nights because of it! Other celebrations included a Shabbat dinner where I baked my first challot and showed my fellow Flagshippers Shabbat.
So, because of my uneventful few weeks, I will take this time to give you a little picture about daily life in the Flagship program.
My day starts around 7:45 am. I eat a bowl of cereal and some nescafe and take a mashrua to school. We are currently taking 3 courses with just the other American students. Sundays and Tuesdays is Egyptian Colloquial Arabic with Ustatha Radwa. Mondays and Wednesdays is Modern Standard Arabic with Ustath Nour, and in the beginning of the year, we chose between Arabic literature and political issues in the Arab world, so Tuesdays is my lit class, also with Ustatha Radwa. Class ends around 1:30.
My afternoons are divided between a few different activities. On Sundays, I go to my direct enrollment class at the University of Alexandria. My professors arrive about 45 minutes late each class, so I get to spend some time with my academic partner, Sarah, and her friends. We play charades and talk a lot about the differences between Egypt and America.
Other days I go to my internship. I am currently interning at Nadi Sporting, playing sports with kids and young adults with special needs. Nadi Sporting is basically the Egyptian equivalent of a country club. The grounds are huge and they have a ton of different sports facilities including a pool, polo, golf course, track, full gym, karate and horseback riding. The club also has activities for children and adults and is a center for socializing among the upper class of Egyptian society. The club trains the Egyptian special olympics team in swimming, basketball, track and field, gymnastics, and table tennis. The teams are amazing! They have won gold and silver is several international competitions, including beating the US in the Beijing Olympics. The participants are extremely talented and it's just amazing to be able to watch the coaches interact with them and how the interact with each other. I'm really enjoying my time there, although I have just started this week!
Other days, I meet for 2 with my language partner. Her name is Chereen (Cherry), and she and Rwan, Katelyn's language partner, are best friends. The four of us go out together, go shopping, eat together, and have a great time!
Then, my evenings are filled with wageb (homework) and lots of it. Lots of reading, listening, writing, and conversation activities. Mae, Nada, and I sit around our dining room table drinking tea and learning new vocab. We have also become master chefs in our apartment, coming up with creative ways to use Egyptian ingredients. Our specialties: vegetable fried rice, pasta sauce (made from scratch from tomato paste and any vegetables we find lying around), chili, eggs, and pradas. Our future roommates: consider yourselves lucky because we will know how to make delicious food cheaply!
Our weekends go from Thursdays-Saturdays, although Thursday is usually spent at our internships. Fridays and Saturdays, we take advantage of being able to relax a little bit, explore the city, meet each others families and friends, and also spend a lot of time on our balcony listening to music, drinking some wine, and having fun with each other!