Last hours in the US!

I missed all of the Sunday activites as my flight was canceled and I had to hang out in the Newark airport for six hours, but am all caught up now. The orientation was really fun, the other girls are great, hotel was nice, all the Amideast people are fantastic...and now we're all sitting at our gate, ready to board our plane to Dubai in a few hours! 

   We've had a super busy few days, chock full of information about Oman and the upcoming seven weeks. We went to the Omani Embassy this morning, and yesterday we went to the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center and had about eight different seminars, including one on 'Intercultural Learning', Language Learning, a visit from people at the State Department, and many more. We got to talk to alumni, which was great. Today we had an 'Intro to Islam' seminar which was incredibly interesting and made me even more excited to experience life in a country whose culture revolves so much on Islam.