<p>My understanding is that students show up a few weeks before classes start at AU Cairo and get an intensive intro to Arabic. Then they study the language during the year. Or that semester – dd’s boy friend is only planning on one semester there, so I don’t know how that will work itself out!</p>
<p>I’m hoping she won’t have a problem getting in. I really don’t know how much competition there is. But I can’t imagine anywhere else an Egyptology major would want to go. UAC is about a block away from the Egyptian museum – she is saving the Egyptian archaeology classes until she is there.</p>
<p>She figured a little introduction before she goes would be useful. Right now she is self-studying French using Assimil – I think they have Arabic as well. Rosetta Stone is also a possibility. But I think it would be useful to get something to learn the alphabet first. I’ll look into the book you recommend. </p>
<p>So many languages she has to get! She wants to take some more German this next school year, get to the point she can read academic literature in French, and has to continue with ancient Egyptian, too.</p>
<p>You’ll have to say later how well the UV light thing works. When we traveled in Egypt we just lived on bottled water. I saw the device in getting things for Bolivia (where she is now, doing a dig – the field schools in Egypt were half as long), but ended up getting tablets.</p>
<p>She’s had a bunch of shots for Bolivia (and is taking stuff for malaria, has antibiotics on hand, etc.), but rabies is the one she didn’t get. I guess we’ll see what all is required or recommended in a year for Egypt. (When we were looking into colleges and considering UAC [couldn’t do because they said they don’t accept homeschoolers without diplomas from accredited schools], I remember they require HIV testing for one thing.) I didn’t realize you needed a series of 3 shots for rabies; maybe that is why my daughter didn’t do it. She started too late? What is the spacing required?</p>
<p>Ah, a segue from Latin to rabies shots!</p>