Hajirah

Recently, I went with a huge group of people to Hajirah. It was a lot of fun, especially sleeping on the roof with 6 other boys. There was one problem: I heard just how great boarding school was. I had heard that it was good several times before, but never heard about it in much depth. Stephen, Nate and Daniel were giving advice to Matt, and I was listening. I really, really wish I was going to boarding school. In my opinion, homeschooling in a country where you only have like 5 friends is like the worst of all possible schooling options. It is no fun, and you make like no new friends. I have a suspicion that because I have been homeschooled, I will have problems making friends in college. I just haven't learned any social skills that will help me make friends. Oh well, it is almost impossible that my mom will ever change her mind about homeschooling me all the way through high school. She appears to completely obsessed with it. Apparently, she thinks I will learn more by homeschooling. That may be true, but what good will a little more knowledge do me if I have no knowledge of people?

Routine

Once again, my life has settled into a routine that varies very little. This is unfortunate because it is rather boring and gives very little posting material. Every morning, I get up, do one hour of rosetta stone, do C++ or psychology for another hour, then play runescape for an hour. I sometimes earn more time, and play some more runescape before supper. After supper the electricity goes off (well, sometimes it waits for an hour or so). While the electricity is off, i take my shower and after take my shower my mom reads Midshipman Quinn to me and Justin. Generally, by the time she is done, the electricity comes back on and I watch a star trek with my family. After it is done we have devotions, then watch smart guy (a funny TV show) and Home Improvement (another even funnier TV show). Then, after I read for half an hour or so, I go to bed (at 10:30 or so). The next day the cycle repeats itself. Pretty much the only major deviation is on Fridays, where the whole thing is completely messed up. Anyways, that is my current life. And it probably won't change much until Jason comes back from Jordan...

Gross

Rosetta Stone is the grossest Arabic learning program I know of. In the lesson I did today, they showed pictures of girls kissing horses (notice the plurals). It was sickening. I have no idea how they convinced the girls to kiss the horses, since I wouldn't kiss a horse unless my life depended on it (well, if I was payed a lot I might consider kissing a horse). If you are interested, I think the word they used for kiss was تقبل
Anyway do not think too hard about this or it will totally gross you out (I mean, just imagine one day kissing a girl who had kissed a horse!)

To change the subject, I finally figured out how to write a C++ program using Xcode! Well, actually I could write them before I just couldn't run them, making them kind of useless. I also learned about syntax errors and parse errors (it took me a while to fix the parse error, because my book didn't mention them so I didn't know what they were). Anyway, in my C++ book i am mostly done with the first chapter. It is quite a lot of fun, but it feels too much like school so i don't do it everyday.