So I just left the downstairs neighbors house who stuffed my flatmates and I clear to the top! Homemade Egyptian food is the bomb! (good stuff: )) In fact I hadn't had any yet and it reminded me of Turkey which was a month and a half ago now. Where does the time go?!? I went to the Pharm. and got some meds I don't know...but I took them and the tummy is a bit better now. Just in time for the feast! Still digesting funny but there are doctors who specialize in stomach stuff right around the corner. I still can't believe that the meds were only 30cents! It is amazing.
I realized that I am very homesick these last few days but after seeing everyone...I don't know what I would be doing so I am content with studying Arabic. By the way the craziest product I have ever seen belongs to the Egyptians...or Arabs in general. "Be White" It is a cream that acctually lightens the skin! The picture is of a woman with olive skin and then an after pic with white skin! SubhanAllah! Very sad. There are these guys that come around the neighborhood and yell "bakiya" out really loud all the time too. They pick up recycles (anything including a kitchen sink) and the cotton candy man has an air horn and the gas can guys bang on the empty tanks. My point...Cairo can never and should never be called a quite place! ha ha.
Still haven't made around Egypt very much...I think I need to at some point...I am also having troubles deciding when to push off. I think I know that the middle east section of my journey is coming to a close (at some point) and therefor don't really want to leave yet. I'm quite sure I'll enjoy the rest but...I really do like it here.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
ugggghhhh my stomach
Hello all,
So I lost my camera if I didn't tell you last time and am still sad about losing the pictures to Jordan and the originals to Turkey. But what can you do? Cairo has been great though. I have caught up with old friends made lots of new ones and have had a chance to settle in for a bit a study arabic again. It is nice to have a schedule again, and cook at home and such. But for the last few days my stomach has been ginving me problems and I will either go to the doctor tomorrow or starting taking cipiro! Ahhhh Cairo you get me every time! 6 months and no problems until now, that is tough to swallow but all is well give thanks.
My flatmates are fun...two pakistani guys from Canada and a Chinese American guy...and we just took on a Syrian guy who has memorized the entire Quran and is heping us by teaching us the reules of reading properly! The neighborhood is nice, a bit out of the cnter of Cairo so traffic is AS bad but it always is bad in Cairo. I've made friends with the entire neighborhood which I always tend to do and am feeling a bit at home.
I have been contemplating the next moves of this journey...I am a bit tired of traveling but am not ready to go home yet as I really do like living in the middle east. I'll stay here for another month god willing and then decide. I might move through the east fairly quickly but there are some things happening in these parts in the summer I would like to attend so we will see.
I really am happy though...this whole process has been amazing. I am studying arabic 5 hours a day in the classroom as well as studying varied religious subjects on the side. I haven't been doing a lot of traveling within Egypt because I have been here before but I did make it to Alexandria with my friend from Seattle which was nice. Like I said...it is nice to come bace to the same bed every night after six months of moving around!
The drivers in Cairo have to be the craziest ever! I have almost been hit many a times while walking and have almost been in a few accidents in the taxis as well. I literally say prayers while I walk!!! ha ha. Well I am off for now. But will start cheking in more often.
So I lost my camera if I didn't tell you last time and am still sad about losing the pictures to Jordan and the originals to Turkey. But what can you do? Cairo has been great though. I have caught up with old friends made lots of new ones and have had a chance to settle in for a bit a study arabic again. It is nice to have a schedule again, and cook at home and such. But for the last few days my stomach has been ginving me problems and I will either go to the doctor tomorrow or starting taking cipiro! Ahhhh Cairo you get me every time! 6 months and no problems until now, that is tough to swallow but all is well give thanks.
My flatmates are fun...two pakistani guys from Canada and a Chinese American guy...and we just took on a Syrian guy who has memorized the entire Quran and is heping us by teaching us the reules of reading properly! The neighborhood is nice, a bit out of the cnter of Cairo so traffic is AS bad but it always is bad in Cairo. I've made friends with the entire neighborhood which I always tend to do and am feeling a bit at home.
I have been contemplating the next moves of this journey...I am a bit tired of traveling but am not ready to go home yet as I really do like living in the middle east. I'll stay here for another month god willing and then decide. I might move through the east fairly quickly but there are some things happening in these parts in the summer I would like to attend so we will see.
I really am happy though...this whole process has been amazing. I am studying arabic 5 hours a day in the classroom as well as studying varied religious subjects on the side. I haven't been doing a lot of traveling within Egypt because I have been here before but I did make it to Alexandria with my friend from Seattle which was nice. Like I said...it is nice to come bace to the same bed every night after six months of moving around!
The drivers in Cairo have to be the craziest ever! I have almost been hit many a times while walking and have almost been in a few accidents in the taxis as well. I literally say prayers while I walk!!! ha ha. Well I am off for now. But will start cheking in more often.
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