Tme moving quickly

I know that I haven’t written in a long time, but that’s mostly because nothing really exciting has been happening. We’re back in school these days, and time is flying by quickly. I can’t believe that in less than three months I’ll be leaving here! We don’t have much time left for teaching either. I wrote out an outline for the rest of my lesson plans for the year, and I was shocked to find how little time I have to teach. Not only do we only have about eight weeks left of school (the last few weeks are grading and wrapping up loose ends, no teaching after May 4th). But two of those are review weeks. So that only leaves about six weeks of teaching and that’s not much time to get the information in. Its just crazy to think about!
Besides school, I have been having fun. A few of us rented a felucca boat for an hour on the Nile. A felucca boat is pretty much a big sailboat, but a little less sophisticated than ones that most people own. It has a sail, a rudder and seats. No steering wheel or anything like that. But still lovely to ride on (especially since it comes with a driver! Ha!). The weekend we did that was beautiful and very warm, and the ride was just relaxing. Its getting windy here (sandstorm season is almost upon us), and that always helps move that boat along.
Last night we had what we all referred to as ‘second thanksgiving’ which was great. Everybody brought a dish to share, and we enjoyed a nice feast. There were about eight people all together, and about half of us brought desserts. We all ended up full though, so it worked out for the best – even if we were all sugared up for a while. Lately we’ve done a lot of hanging out on people’s roofs and playing cards. And Jenga! I’ve gotten a lot better at both of them. Its been really relaxing and I’m really going to miss everyone here. Don’t worry about me staying though, pretty much everyone is leaving after the school year ends.
Ok, I'll try to keep updating :) sorry about the long down time!