London Part 2 & Lebanon

Well, my stuff arrived and I finally have new underwear. How exciting!! This stuff is very hard, but I'm picking up on it quickly. Were not just learning new words, we have to learn the entire alphabet first. We also have a colloquial class where we are learning only to speak. It helps alot when walking around the city. We spend a lot of time walking around. This place is actually much safer than I expected. The mediterranean is gorgeous. No pictures from there yet, but we had lunch earlier at a cafe hanging over the mediterranean and looking at a landmark called the pigeon rocks. The meal was only ten dollars. Amazing!

We've stayed moslty in West Beirut, but we'll probably go downtown one of these weekends. This weekend I'm going to Damascus and Aleppo in Syria. Really, truly do not worry about me. This place is much safer than I thought it would be. The college is right next to the Prime Minister's son's house and the Saudi embassy. Security is everywhere. People do stare at us a lot though. I stick out like a sore thumb (As do most people in the program). The food here is excellent, and we are learning very quickly it's all been great.

I also have some pictures from London as part of this. The one in the park is part of regents park. There are people playing sports everywhere and there are also beautiful gardens. This picture i was taking and a soccer ball rolled right through. All in all it was a great trip. I have homework to finish and its 11:00 at night. I cant believe I'm in an 8:00 am colloquial class. So when you're partying at 10:00 pm know that I am speaking Arabic in a far away land.

Live from Lebanon
Josh Wilson