Loving. Beirut.

What can I say? I absolutely love it here. Beirut is such an interesting city...and I've fallen in love with AUB's beautiful campus (the AUB campus cats are particularly favorites for me). It's so great to just be able to go and wade in the Mediterranean whenever I want to, to get some of the best food ever (though no cuisine has beaten my native Creole cuisine yet for me, the food here is amaze). Everything's hotter and more honest even than in New York, and the Lebanese have no problem with that. I've met some of the most amazing people, and got to spend my 20th birthday in Solidaire, smoking shisha and (legally) drinking. I'm loving the classes, and I'm learning a lot of Arabic. Next week we are going to begin taking 'Amia for an hour in the morning as well as Fusha for five more, and I'm happy to be learning Lebanese Colloquial alongside what I'm going to encounter in Al-Kitaab.

Even being in a cheaper country, my money supplies are constantly running low. I need to learn to conserve more, also considering I won't be able to work next semester either :-(, :-).

When I said honest earlier, I meant honest. People here do not care if you know that they're looking at you; they'll look just the same. I'm so used to undercover bitchiness that I guess I'm going to have to learn how to deal with this step by step. I truly believe being a bitch is a notable art form; only the worthy survive hehe.

I HATE my roommate. He's blond, big, and disgusting...I call him "Meep Meep" because that's the first thing he ever told me. He's literally said four insignificant sentences to me in the past three days, and I've said a total of 13 words to him since he's arrived, most of which have been "uh huh" or a couple of times when he awkwardly acted weird and woke up gasping and throwing his pillow when I walked in the door from somewhere (happened more than once eww), I've said, "Are you ok?" NOT what I was expecting at all. Hate my life.

So yes, good times, amazing people, awesome classes, spending money I don't have in a city of amazingness...what more can I have asked for? Well, I still know something missing ;-).

You know you love it.
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