so you don't feel your tax dollars are wasted...

I had 12 hours of Arabic language classwork today.  Also, this is the only English I have used today.  Just thought everyone should know.

By the way, I have a new favorite person in the world.  His name is Muhammad and he is a little old Moroccan man who owns a store down the block and is infinitely nice to me when I go in there to buy water (literally, we are on a first name basis and call each other brothers...  Granted, you can call anyone your brother in Arabic.  Ever.  But we're still on first name basis.).  Tonight, I went in with my roommate Matt to get some water, and we ended up talking with him for about 20 minutes, as he tracked down someone to go buy Matt a notebook from somewhere else in the city to take back to him, so he could then sell it to us.  I told him I'd be there everyday this summer; I'm not sure he understood that I wasn't kidding, but it'll become clear that I wasn't when I am in there each and everyday to get water.

انا سأنام (I'm going to sleep).

Good night all.