As expected, things are winding down and I don't really have as much to write anymore. I didn't even take a single picture today. Today it was really sweet though...downstairs in the dining room there is a coffee/tea table for everyone. It has the essentials but as I mentioned yesterday, I had bought my own coffee mate at the market on Tuesday. I have two little containers, one I keep here and one I have at the lab for my coffee there. After seeing me abstain from the milk they leave on the table and pockting my own coffee mate, the egyptians went out and bought a large one and put it on the table.
Meals here can be really hit or miss...a lot of times the miss part comes from me not wanting to eat the fried stuff. There is usually always soup, marinated vegetables, rice, and some other form of hot stewed vegetable. whatever it is I just usually put on a lot of pepper and hot sauce and eat it. The lentil soup made here is amazing...but tonight they had carrot soup...carrot soup, not so much....for the most part there is usually always something I can eat...some of it I could rant and rave about, others i could really skip and just subsititute with a lot of granola bars back in my room. I seem to be a bigger fan of the food than most of the people still around though...a lot of the grad students have been subsisting on peanut butter and jelly for weeks. They don't have regular jelly here though...it's fig jam or ganna jam...and those just kind of make me feel weird...
Some exciting news though, I received this e-mail from National Geographic:
Dear Kelly,
I am happy to be able to inform you that your Young Explorers Grant application was approved at our May meeting earlier this week. You will be receiving full funding in this award. I am sure that you can use both these funds and any other funds you've received for the project. Yours was the highest ranked YE grant we considered in this batch, receiving 15 perfect scores from the members of the CRE. Congratulations!
NGS staff will be contacting you soon with details of your award (if they haven't already) but I wanted to make sure I congratulated you personally on your achievment.
I look forward to hearing about the results of your work.
This means I have more than enough funds for this trip. Unfortunately I cannot keep all of the funds National Geographic offered me since I received another national grant, I only get to keep about half of it. But that my proposal was so well received is great!
Well I need to either read some more on Egypt or beging generating my database for my work....(I will probably sleep though soon, I'm still recovering from the Fayum).
For those complaining about the length of my posts (sorry guys didn't realize egypt was so OLD NEWS) the entries will probably be a lot shorter since now I have database stuff to punch in when I get off of work.
Next Friday I wont be going on any wild excursions either..it was actually a fluke that I did all the traveling that I did this week, it was supposed to be more spread out but that's just how it happened. Next Friday I am going to the Cairo Museum though. But it's only Saturday....sigh my next day off is still so far away!
Goodnight (good afternoon) to you all
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