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 […]

I’ve been in Cairo about a month now and I still haven’t written much about the students I teach. So here we go… Our group of DukeEngagers works with Somali unaccompanied minors (youth aged 13-21 in Cairo without parents/guardians). These young men and women are in Cairo without their parents for a variety of reasons: […]

I got really sick yesterday and I ended up in the hospital. I had severe food poisoning which caused dehydration. That was fun (not really). I thought I was okay until the point where I couldn’t keep down water or Cipro pills. (Cipro is the “miracle drug” that Duke Student Health gave us in case […]

Well, it seems that I have my third round of food poisoning this week. I ate at the American restaurant Chili’s last night. We even had a birthday celebration there for Uncle Sam. They brought us a cake and sang some weird version of Happy Birthday. (One of the guys in our group said his […]