Fo shizzle my nizzle

We went to Sharm al-Sheikh this weekend to climb Mt. Sinai and go snorkeling. To get there we rode a bus for 12 hours, doing everything the third or fourth best way (going the long way, stopping at a fly-infested zoo so that the bus could fill up with flies, getting off the bus at the end only to get back on in order to drive fifty more feet).

When we climbed Mt. Sinai, I hadn't slept for twenty four hours. I hadn't eaten in a long time, and I didn't have enough water. It's a three-hour or so hike, but a couple of us did it in about two hours, so we were moving pretty fast. The higher we got the colder it got, and I gave Katlyn cause for concern when I started staggering near the summit. Just a combination of exhaustion with lack of oxygen. She lent me her small long-sleeve shirt (which made me look huge, yeah) to keep me from freezing to death up there. A group of us made it though, and huddled together to stay warm until we could watch the sun rise. Very fun times.

Snorkeling in the Red Sea was also fun. I've been out to Ras Mohammad before, but this time I went off a boat and saw a manta ray, which was really cool. There were speakers on the boat so we could dance, and someone put on "I'm on a boat" by Adam Samberg and T-Pain, which was appropriate (in an unedited inappropriate way).

I got really sick the night before we left, it was just my turn I guess, so the twelve hours back was miserable. Luckily for me though I got to sit next to Nour, who knows Levantine Arabic, French, and English, but doesn't know English slang. I taught her some common terms, and she asked me, "What does 'junk in the trunk' mean?" Hilarious. Someone else had already taught her "fo sho" which was hilarious, just imagine someone speaking fluent English but confused when people say things like "Get up out of my grill". Very fun.

My favorite was when she asked, "What does 'shizzle' mean?"