Music Party!

Arabic Fun fact: the literal translation for concert in Arabic is Music Party (or Music Celebration). 

When you can't speak the same language as people, you start to notice the connections people make that transcend language. Our cab driver to the concert we went to tonight knew "Can you speak Arabic?" and that's about it, but he played English music on his radio and we all sang along to the part that went "lalalalala". Music is amazing that way...this was my first real concert outside of college ones and I loved the way the energy flowed through complete strangers regardless of whether the words were Arabic, English or Arabizi. On the other hand, it's very scary when you don't know the  language or the area well enough to tell the cab driver how to go home.

We got a lot of important information today about classes and such, the best news being that we have Thursday, Friday and Saturday off! We don't know exactly when our classes are until we take the placement exam (on Wednesday apparently). Wednesday is also when the language pledge starts so if you want to skype me in English tomorrow would be the time to do it (shoot me an email).

We also have a very strict curfew. When I say strict I mean if we are not home by 11:00pm we have to sleep outside or find somewhere to stay. All the girls kept getting invited to this underground after party after the concert but we had to get back or we'd get locked out. Which was probably for the best, but it might have been really fun.

I promise I will post pictures of my apartment soon.