So the internet is back. And we have a new refrigerator. It’s wonderful to have cold food and water again. Alhtough, the landlord still thinks he can fix the old one. There was a repair man in the kitchen working all day on that busted old thing. I wonder when he’ll figure out that the […]

So things in Egypt aren’t quite like things in the US. For instance, our internet stopped working a few days ago in our apartment. At first, we thought that our cheap landlord did not pay the bill or cancelled it. We were wrong. It wasn’t just our internet that stopped working, most subscribers to our […]

This weekend we went to Sharm Al-Sheikh, a beach resort city on the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula on the Red Sea in Egypt. According to our bus drivers, it’s in Asia, but I’m not quite so sure about that. Getting to Sharm is a hefty car ride. We shoved 14 people (12 of […]

So today I spent a lot of money. In Egypt, everything is so cheap that when I spend money, I just about cringe. Today we visited the American University in Cairo bookstore and I spent 445LE (~$85). I bought a bunch of books: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz, The Thief and the Dogs by […]