In case y'all did not know the work week in most Islamic countries in the world is apparently Sunday- Thursday and the weekend is Friday and Saturday. On most weekends I will be able to go to visit other places around the country (eg the pyramids, the Sinai Peninsula etc) however this weekend they could not go anywhere so I was left here at the center. I am the only person who speaks English at the entire center and so it has been pretty lonely here. I am so glad to be able to call and talk with people on Skype as it would be really annoying not to be able to communicate with anyone for a whole weekend. Unforntuanatlyey though the wireless internet is not working othe laptop so I am stuck to the desktop in my office which is about 100 meters away from my apartment. This computer is very very slow and is kinda annoying but its better than nothing at all.
Thrusday night I tried to use the internet in the apartment but it did not work so I came over to the office to talk to friends on skype. I came in to the office around 5:30 or 6 ish I guess. After surfing the web for a while and talking to Eylssa G. and my Dad I unplugged my laptop and rolled up the power cord, locked my office door and proceeded to walk down the hallway to the door. When I got to the door and pulled to open it I found that it was locked. I went back to another door and found that it too was also locked. The key that I have only unlocks the door to my office so I soon found out so I thought I was in a real pickle. Then however I remembered the old addage " when God shuts a door, he opens a window" and I began to look around. I soon realized after going up and down the hall a few times looking for a big enough that could be open that there were windows right next to the door that I had been trying to get out of that could be unlocked. I opened one and successfully (and gracefully Ha!) got my big body over the ledge and outside. I closed the window, ensuring that I could get back in if I needed and went and made some rice and chicken for dinner.
Yesterday morning I woke up around 11:30 am which is weird for me, I guess I was more tired than I thought. I went for a walk around the perimeter of the center and that took me a while I met several of the secruity guards while on my way however none of them spoke english. I think one of them had his children with him because there were two little girls running around near him. I then came back to the apartment and had lunch. The i went over to the center and got back inside through the window and played a lot of spider solitaire, checked my email and got on facebook while listening to the Infomaniacs online and then Neal Boortz and then Dave Ramesy for an hour or so.
Today I got up around 9:30 and came to the center and weighed out the feed to feed some fish that Ahmed asked me to feed. I feed them and used the net to clean out the dead bugs as much as possible. The I came to the office and checked my emails and facebook and stuff like that and then went back to the apartment for a lunch of a hamburger with some grilled onions katchup and musturd on a toasted over natural gas bun and some cucumber. It was delicous. I came back to the center and then fed the fish again. Then I read about 75 pages of T.V.R. Pillay's Aquaculture Princeples and Practices, which gives a basic knowledge of aquaculture. I fed the fish for a final time and then came in here and after llistening to the Daily Breakfast with Fr. Roderick (a very funny podcast) and some of the Dave Ramsey show I have typed this post.
The weather has been pretty good here I mean its hot but really kinda dry so its not that bad.
Will Rooney
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