Days 5-6

Yesterday I got my AIDS test done for my classes at the university and was given a clean bill of health and was able to register for my classes today. I got placed into level 4 of Arabic at the university, I don't know if that is good or bad, but I will find out Sunday. Yesterday I just relaxed until night when my Italian housemates and I took their little silver Kia Morning rental car for a spin back up the mountain. Today the same Italians and I drove to Beirut, Lebanon today. It was stressful it took at least an hour and a half to go through the borders, countless fee's, and a threatening to through his shoe at the car unless we gave him money... we won that game of chicken. We got into to Beirut around seven and plan to spend the rest of the night relaxing. We are staying with my friend Laura from Lancaster and Penn State for the weekend-Thursday night to Saturday night. Tomorrow we will hit the beach and sight see and I'm going with Laura to a beach party so that should be interesting. Until later ciao!