I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been very busy. This week we had the usual stuff: teaching English and learning Arabic. Plus, we visited more tourist sites in Cairo (Coptic Christian Cairo, Al-Azhar University/Mosque, Al-Hussein Mosque, Khan al-Khalili, etc…). Also, I went to Resala (an orphanage) and taught a First Aid course to […]

Cairo is unlike anywhere I’ve ever been. There are just a few facts of life here that are very different from what I am used to. 1. Real time is not Cairo time. When someone says, “Let’s meet at 10am,” he really means “Let’s meet at 11 or later.” In Cairo, time is more subjective […]

Today we went on a window shopping expedition! Brooke (a professor from AUC) led us to the best, nearly-impossible-to-find merchants. In the Khan, it’s easy to be dragged into the tourist trap, but Brooke knew exactly where to take us, and we avoided nearly all hassles by salespeople. If you want anything at all from […]

Coming to Cairo has been a definite lifestyle adjustment for me and, I assume, most of my teammates.  Cairo is such a strange place to me that after 2 weeks I still do not quite know what to make of it.  Cairo is a modern city, but only in the sense that it was not […]