Here it Goes Again

I'm a lot busier than I expected to be. Last semester was much easier and a little misleading that way. I'm dropping my class on the British Empire. It doesn't fulfill any requirements and it's the class I'm least attached too. It could've been fun, but so far I feel inundated with reading, so cutting out the work for it might make my life just a little easier. And I'm still taking 4 classes, a full course load.
Last week we got a new president, and I was fortunate enough to be able to watch the inauguration before class with a room packed with other students. It was a good moment in time. There was a lot of unity and spirit in that living room.

Ok, so now more from Dubai, since that is what I promised.


All these pictures (above) were taken at Madinat Jumeirah, the shopping center I mentioned at the end of my last post.

These 2 are of Ski Dubai, an indoor (!) ski slope located in the Mall of the Emirates. The same mall has a massive toy store, and a large WinCo sized grocery store. The escalators near the grocery store are more like uphill and downhill moving sidewalks so that one can take their shopping cart on it with them.
This one is also of the Mall of the Emirates.



These 4 are from Wafi, which is another mall with an Egyptian theme. The first is of Khan Murjan, an open air restaurant with Middle-Eastern food. Dad and I ate dinner there one night, and I ordered prawns, which came fully shelled with heads and legs and all.A mosque. Lots of these around.
These last 4 are taken inside the Dubai Mall, where they have a huge aquarium with a tunnel that you can walk through inside of it, like Newport. Dad and I happened by it at the same time they had divers inside the aquarium feeding the sharks and rays.
This is it for now. More next time.