Typed up at: home
Posted from: Cilantros
Here are some more random things about Cairo.
I actually pay attention to, and appreciate the clothes the women wear here. At home I barely notice. Specifically, I really enjoy the long, fancy gowns that the slightly conservative women wear. (All the cool kids wear jeans and shirts, everything long but [...]

Typed up at: home
Posted from: home
It’s about time that I write something more on the blog. Since my blogs are very activity/travel oriented I have slowed down quite a bit while here in Cairo because just not as much events happen every day. Mostly the events are studying Arabic and eating. The most recent event [...]

Usually movies get uploaded a while after the pictures, so the few of you who try to keep up with the pictures might miss them. There’s now a new convenient page that just lists all the movies of 2008. If you’re looking to kill a few minutes, you could do worse than click around a [...]

Typed up: at our apartment in Cairo
Posted from: our apartment in Cairo
It feels a little bit like on this trip I’m always complaining about how tired I am. Part of it is (of course) that we don’t give ourselves any rest. We think we do, but it always turns out that what we plan is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Typed up: at Morad’s place in Cairo
Posted from: Morad’s place in Cairo
In Nairobi we took a taxi to a hotel the book likes. Our taxi driver had to stop and get out of the car to ask for directions twice, and on top of that the car stalled several times. Despite all this he asked [...]

I interrupt the continuity of this blog to bring you an important announcement. We both kind of feel like we’re done with traveling for a bit, so we’re going to stay in Cairo until December 1. We rented an apartment yesterday, and got our visa extensions taken care of today. We’ll be studying Egyptian (which [...]