Letter To my teacher:

I am having a GREAT time! I really really like it here! Although there are many differences here that make it blatantly apparent that i am in a very foreign country I actually feel as though it is not that strange and that I fit in pretty well. I'll fill you in on what I have been doing: I spent three days in DC staying with my brother and Sister and while there I got to take advantage of the Smithsonian Museums. I spent time at the National Museum of American History which was great! ( My favorite exhibit was the huge room of past first ladies inaugural ball gowns, so cool! Also There was a very interesting show on all the presidents and their significance. Oh AND I saw the ruby red slippers from The Wizard Of OZ annnnnnnnd Mohammed Ali's boxing gloves!) Thennnnnnnn we went to the National Museum of the American Indian which was really cool and had GREAT food. he he he. Last but not least we went to the new NEWSEUM which is the coolest museum ever all about reporting and media of the past and today; we didn't get much time there so I am going to go again on the trip home in May! So all that excitement was JUST in America.
Here in Saudi things have been great, the compound I live in is very safe but not too Americanized which is very cool. Yesterday We took a taxi ride all around town to look around and also go grocery shopping; the grocery store (Tamimi) is actually a Safeway which is interesting; and strangely enough is located at the end of one of the biggest malls I have ever been in. (Although you cannot see what any women are wearing under the abaya judging by all the clothing stores in the mall they look GOOD.) welllllllllll I think you got more info than you needed but as you can probably tell I am very excited and having a lot of fun.