i spent half of the day yesterday cleaning and rearranging my room. glad to finally get that out of the way. this whole week off icc has been really great. at least it gives me time to catch up with what i've been missing in classes. usman finally sent an email last night scheduling a meeting tonight. so it all begins again. we're running out of time, really. there's still about ten thousand needs to be raised and it's less than a month to the deadline. maybe i should have gone to the bush lecture the other day. who knows, i might have been able to persuade issam fares himself to sponsor our project. right... in my dreams. i wouldn't be able to pass through security anyway. i doubt we'd be able to pull that much money in such a short time, but perhaps we can persuade the school to cover half of the cost of renovation with us. or see if noureddine can find people who will bring the cost down. those are things to look at in tonight's meeting.