The One with Girl's Night

The rest of the week went pretty normally. On Friday, Becca and I went to International Coffee Hour where we hung out with lots of the internationals and INTAPP people and ate yummy free food. We also went to the doctor's to get our TB tests checked, which were thankfully fine. We then went on the red route to Walmart, but we ended up going on the wrong route the first time, the one that went to one of the main car parks. When we got on the correct bus, we spent an hour and a half wandering round Walmart. I then had my first ever Subway, which was sooooo good :) They have a Subway in Walmart, which is always handy :)

Saturday was fun, because we all went out for Emma's 21st birthday. We had a meal at Portofino, an Italian cafe at the bottom of Bodenheimer Drive. The food was excellent, I had a grilled chicken foldover, kind of like a soft pitta. We stayed there for a few hours, then moved on to Macadoos, a bar/restaurant on King Street where people had some beers and ice cream, and we just hung out and talked until about 2am. It happened to be College football day, so all the television screens had the Alabama vs Virginis Tech game on. The whole bar was cheering for Tech, but there was a couple sitting behind us with the most obnoxious woman ever, cheering for Alabama in the loudest screechiest most annoying voice, screaming 'LET'S GO BAMA' every 30 seconds. Sooooo annoying! But it was a fun night, and then we walked back up to the LLC.

Sunday was spent sleeping, then watching television until five when Becca and I decided we were hungry. Becca knew she had seen a KFC along Blowing Rock Road somewhere, but couldn't remember how far down it was. We met at the statue of Yosef, and walked down Blowing Rock Road for what seemed like quite a long way. We eventually found KFC, which was pretty much next to Walmart. We ate, then walked back. I looked up how far we had walked, just out of curiosity, and it turned out that it was 2.5 miles to KFC, and then 2.5 miles back. 5 miles for a KFC seems pretty extreme, but it tasted ten times better after the long walk :)

After the walk, we went up to Shada's apartment. There were about 12 of us, and she had invited us for a girl's night. Shada is from Yemen, so she was playing us lots of Middle Eastern music, from Lebanon and Yemen. It was really good to hear different music, and the Arabic language is actually really beautiful when you hear it sung. We had food, (pizza, chips, cookie dough and frozen yogurt) and soft drinks, and talked about girly things, generally having fun. We played music from all of our different countries, and also learnt some native dances. Shada tried to teach us how to belly dance, and we learnt a traditional Ugandan dance, the macarena, the cha cha slide, the salsa, and also a version of the Meringue. It was really nice to hang out with the girls for a night :)