Egyo

I fly to Cairo July 13th...here is the tentative plan: The July 16-20th in Gharda2a, 20-22 back in Cairo, 23-29 in 3ageeba near Marsa Matrouh, and the rest of my sweet sweet time will be spent with AIESECERS (get ready Kaitlin!) I come back the 6th...It has been an amazing summer in the Mad city...class, work, sailing, windsurfing, aiesecing, taking our awesome trainee around with ALI, buying art and feeling really cool, and bumming around with a wanna-be Egyo...It's hard to think that I won't be coming back to the comforts of Gilman street, but I guess the best way to look at this is this:
I am setting higher goals for myself than I ever thought possible
I am having the best few months of my life
I am making the most out of the time I have
I am happy

If nothing else, I will always have my memories of this summer

All I have to say is, my flight to Cairo will be a long one...

Random blurbs

Thanks to Dania and her awesome blog about Nancy 3agram's concert (and to T-rent for pointing it out), I took a spontaneous trip to Chicago, met up with my GREAT friend Sherine (future AIESEC newbie of Michigan, just to let you all know...yes I am making her join, she will be a freshman this fall) and had an AWESOME time! This was the most organized Arab event I have ever been to...I was quite amazed...we managed to get seats right up by the stage after some careful maneuvering...it's all about learning how to work the system; that's a smart skill to acquire...Anywho all in all it was a fantastic night. I will post pictures as soon as I figure out how to do that...

Trainees coming to the Madcity soon...EEK!

All you Madtowners on crazy adventures better start blogging...ANDY!


On a completely different note...
can I just say that I hope this next month goes by as slow as humanly possible? Actually, some supernatural phenomenon that would pause time would be fantastic...let me know if you can help me out in that department...

Promises

I just watched "Promises," the award-winning documentary by B.Z Goldberg following the lives of seven children in the heart of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict between 1997-2000...its worth watching, and closely linked to AIESEC's mission.
http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/p/promises.shtml
Check it out

Beduins-nomadic by blood

Being a nomad is in my blood-really. While debating the origins of my itch to constantly hop from place to place, I stumbled upon my mom's maiden name-Badawi, which comes from beduin, an Arab from any nomadic tribe...So, today I asked her if there was a link, and apparently, my great-grandpa was from a beduin tribe in Algeria...So, not only have a found out that, yes, being a nomad runs through my veins, but hey, I guess I'm also part Algerian? Who knew! It makes me wonder if there's like a nomadic gene, and if there is, if its recessive, because let me tell you, that trait has most definitely skipped my mother....so maybe she's heterozygous, with the dominant "non-nomadic" allele and the recessive "nomadic" allele...meaning my dad would have to be homozygous for the "nomadic" allele, seeing as how he can't stay put for the life of him...He left to Qatar this morning for his new job... So basically, although I'm pretty sure I made the whole "nomadic gene" up, and I'm also pretty sure that I've had too much of a zoology overdose this semester, I feel like this blog wasn't completely pointless, seeing as how it shed light on my nomadic tendencies through my family history. Ok I'm procrastinating, back to zoology.
Sara

An official Nomad

For those of you who don't know me, I'm an AIESECER from the MADCITAY...I am finally blogging, amazing eh?
About me...let me see..., second semester freshman at UW, first semester AIESECER, but I'm pretty sucked in truth be told. How could you not be; amazing, passionate people with an awesome vision, huge dreams, and so much potential. So I'm just getting started, and hope to take full advantage of this amazing amazing opportunity. I think I will leave it at that for now, more updates on my awesome self later.