The End

Yeah so sorry I totally gave up on this blog a few months ago, but I decided I should write a final blog entry. I go back in two days, and I've been switching off and on from being sad about leaving to being excited about going back. Right now I'm kind of in the middle. I also kind of don't believe I'm leaving.. It feels really similar to how I felt before I came here.

This experience has been rough sometimes, but overall I don't regret anything and I'm so grateful I've had the opportunity to do this. Egypt will always be a part of me and it's most definitely shown me so much. It has made me stronger as a woman, more clear in my direction and chosen purpose for life, and ready to really start getting stuff done. And I'll be doing that in a month when I go to Mississippi for Americorps for 10 months. I plan to spend the rest of my life making the lives of others (in particular, women) fair, just, and hopefully at least a tad bit better.


Things I'm going to miss the most about Egypt, in no particular order:
- Kosheri!
- Juice
- Host family and friends
- Overbearing kindness
- Shaabi music
- Egyptian dancing
- Public transportation
- Unceasing car horns and sirens
- Extremely corny and cheesy music/jokes/people
- Lib
- Eating dinner at midnight
- Eating breakfast at 2 pm
- Sunshine
- Kung fu on the roof of Resala
- Resala and the amazing people who volunteer there
- Haram street
- Being called a banana and a cat by men on the street
- Egyptian English
- Kalimat and our fantastic Arabic teachers
- People not being germophobes
- Feluccas on the Nile
- Egyptian pride


Things I'm excited for in America:
- Silence
- Nature
- Friends and family
- Food!
- The park
- Bonfires
- Ice cream
- Walking down a street without being stared at/creeped on
- Wearing whatever I want
- Driving
- Biking
- Rain
- Staying out late
- Dollar movies
- Thrift stores
- My bed
- The Fourth of July!
- Americorps!