Someone must like me... No, it's probably not you.

So back in January (2010), two grant applications were emailed to me with the recommendation to fill them out. Both grants are federally funded through American Councils. One is the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) program, where a teacher from Egypt will co-teach in an American classroom for one school year, and the other is the Arabic Institute of Summer Languages Initiative(ISLI), where an American teacher will travel abroad to Alexandria, Egypt this summer for 7 weeks to study immersion Arabic.
And to my fortune, having never written a grant, I got both of them! I found out mid-April that a teacher was coming here and a week later, after having successfully passed a 30 minute oral exam in Arabic two weeks prior, that I was going to spend my summer in Alexandria!
Unfortunately, I will not be able to take my family. And yes, my wife is jealous. As a matter of fact, this was the thought that went through her mind when I broke the news to her.


Just kidding. But surely she was sad. That being said. I am taking her back next year with some of my students for about two weeks. It will be awesome and she will like me again. Only 387 days until she likes me again. Either way, wish me luck and keep watching the posts!