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Archive for October, 2008

Are you ready for some football?

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Typed up: at link.net (previously known as “unnamed”) Internet cafe in Cairo
Posted from: at link.net Internet cafe in Cairo
One of those American cultural things we enjoy is watching NFL football on TV. We figured Cairo is a huge city, so we’d take the opportunity to catch a game or two. But as it turns out [...]

Living in Cairo

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Typed up: at unnamed Internet Cafe in Cairo
Posted from: the same place
We’re living in Cairo now, kind of. We don’t have jobs, but we do have a 5 day a week obligation to go to Arabic class (for 2 hours). So we have a little bit of a routine, while we spend the rest of [...]

Hurghada

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Typed up: in our apartment in Cairo
Posted from: nameless Internet cafe in Cairo
At 11pm on September 29th we sped through busy Cairo streets with Morad at the wheel, Amany and Mimi in the navigator’s seat, and Merna, Danielle and I in the back seat. We hit some traffic, but it didn’t take terribly long to [...]

Cairo

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Typed up: in a flat in Hurghada, Kamba Net Cafe in Cairo (house music will never die), Cafe de Paris in Cairo, Internet Cafe in Cairo
Posted from: Cafe de Paris in Cairo, Internet Cafe in Cairo
We arrived in Cairo early in the morning. We stood in the wrong line at first, but that was quickly [...]