life is beautiful

ok so I just signed on to facebook and basically, well everyone needs to check out Bryan's profile, because holy crap! I'll leave it at that.

Ok anyway I thought I'd let u know that I had my first arabic lesson and deffinitely still can't pronounce my letters. But at least my teacher's a lot more patient than turban Nahed, and he's freakin hilarious, and his kid hates me already. We're still learning letters, thank God.

Also, remember how we had to do that big Qur'an paper last semester. Well I'm continuing that project for one of my classes this semester. I'm doing a cross-cultural, cross-religious look at interpretation of the story in the Qur'an about Adam and the tree in the garden. I have three interviews in Egypt and three interviews here so far. I interviewed Fatiha, who I'm teaching English, and she wants me to interview her husband. I got invited to her house to get to know each other better too, yay! I interviewed my housemate and her boyfriend from India too. Its really interesting guys.

O and tonight, by another of the weird coincidences that seem to make up my life, the two guys at Calvin from Egypt sat next to me at LOFT (its our sunday night worship service thing) and so after the service I was like, "hey you're the guys from Egypt right?" Haha, smooth I know. The one I met freshman year was actually like, "and I met you on a plane," haha, yay he remembered. So we talked for a good while, it was great. They're really nice and funny and were trying to speak arabic to me. However, the guy who's actually from Cairo said Agouza was a ghetto. I was like, "uhh, not really, its pretty nice."

Otherwise in my life, I did my weird thousand hand buddha dance performance this weekend, for those of u who saw the early stages of my practice a few weeks ago, haha. It went well. That basically ate my life this week.

I had an amazing really long conversation with my boss on Monday morning about theology and judgment and if we could judge people or say that anything was automatically wrong or evil, the nature of evil, the nature of humanity, the nature of God, sexuality, homosexuality, American culture and how ridiculous and protected and pornographic it is, etc. I've realized after this last semester that I thrive on these conversations. The real, important, deep ones.

It snowed really beautiful, huge fluffy snowflakes tonight and now all the trees and everything are covered in like an inch of fuffy snow. Its beautiful, but no one will play in the snow with me. If only David were here with his snowpants.

Guys I love u all, and I'm glad I have u all to struggle with all this weird crap with.