i am REAL!

as usual, i am too lazy (and too exhausted) to post much, buuuuut i just wanted everyone to know that i am now a real adult: my name is now listed on the amideast website :) yayy!! right above the driver haha. work is quite exhausting, and i think it's going to be quite hard to limit myself to 6 hrs/day (which is what i'm supposed to be working), but i really like what i'm doing and the people i'm working with. i am in charge of general advising for anyone interested in US higher education, as well as the coordination of two programs (a high school exchange program and a college prep grant) funded by the state department...and a few other things here and there. while there are a few americans working at AMIDEAST (the country director and some english teachers, etc.), i work mostly with yemenis which is very nice...and beneficial to everyone involved in terms of language exchange :)

well, i must go close my windows now in a desperate/hopeless attempt to block out the chorus of calls to prayer (many resembling screeching), some very impassioned sermonizing, and an extremely aggravating and ceaseless number of fire crackers being set off right below my window. some important advice: if you don't like fire crackers, never come to yemen.