Birthday and Internet cut-off

Well, yesterday was my birthday. I am now 16. And as a present from the phone company, our phone line was not working, and so the ADSL was not working either. Which meant I had to use dial-up. SLOW. Normally, I have about 6 pages loading at once, with dial-up, I could have one. And that one page would take 20 seconds to load. Nasty. At anrate, my birthday was fun. For my party (two days before my actual birthday) I had Graham over for the night, and we ate half the cake my mom had made. It was a wonderful cake, chocolate with skittles on top (skittles on cake tastes REALLY good). The following day, we tried to sleep in, but had to get up for church at 9 (parents are cruel), then when Graham left around 4, I got online (this was before the phone line thing) and had good fun for an hour or two. Afterwards, I finished The Light Fantastic, and went to bed. The next day, the internet was cut off. I was saddened. At anyrate, the phone line seems to have randomly fixed itself earlier today, so I'm happy again. I should probably get off the computer now, I have a mountain of school this week and 5 more books to read in the remaining 5 days of the week, and therefore need all the sleep I can get.

Arabic

Recently, I discovered that not all the Arabic that I have learned in the past few years was worthless. The other day, as I was walking home from Medina Street, I saw a bunch of guys on the street playing UNO, and much to my surprise, they asked me to join them. So I did. It was interesting, and not actually very much different than playing UNO with a bunch of American guys (except that everything was in Arabic). This is where my Arabic came in useful. I could actually understand almost all the jokes they made (there were one or two where I understood the words, but not what was funny about them). It was actually quite a bit of fun, and I am considering going out there more often to hang out with them (if I understood correctly, they often meet at that time in that place)