Hey dudes...
Weekly update time!! Really not much to report... we had a pretty easy going weekend here, I slept a lot. Sleeping is good. :)
Last Wednesday, I went salsa dancing with a friend from the university. It was so fun - I had totally forgotten how much I love salsa dancing! There were some very good dancers - it was really fun to watch them, as well as dance myself. I can't help but think how random it is that I came to Egypt and am now salsa dancing again of all things. Hopefully I'll be going pretty regularly and practicing new moves and styling! funnnn!
Friday night, Christina and I successfully navigated the Cairo metro system to go to TGI Friday's along the Nile, in an area called Maadi. It was a fun roomie adventure - and definitely the best branch of this restaurant I've been to, especially since they had an awesome patio and shisha! Not to mention that we finally got our Mexican food fix - yay for fajitas!! We only got slightly lost twice - once in a cab when we were trying to get back to the metro station and the driver instead took us to a market called Metro Market. We had to call one of our friends and have him explain to the driver in Arabic where we actually wanted to go. The second time we got lost was while we were trying to get home from the metro station in Zamalek. Eventually we came up with the brilliant conclusion that since Zamalek is an island, and our apartment is on one edge of the island, that if we just stayed along the Nile, we would eventually reach home. This may have taken us slightly out of the way, but hey, it worked!
(photo credit - Christina's camera and our waiter)
The next day, Saturday, we went to the Khan el Khalili marketplace to do some shoppin!! One of our Egyptian friends came with us and helped us get good deals on scarves. I now have a lifetime supply... We also went to Mahmoud's 4 story bellydance shop, where I set up a fitting for the first of many custom made costumes I plan to get while I'm here!! YAYYYY!!!! The first is a pharaonic style costume - turquoise, red, gold, Egyptiany... It's going to be amazing. I have my fitting tonight :D
School is finally becoming more routine and sorting itself out a bit - I am taking two Arabic classes, one modern standard Arabic and one Egyptian colloquial Arabic, and a developmental biology class. It is a less than full-time schedule, so I should have plenty of time for dancing, exploring, and having fun. I like all the classes, and am meeting nice people in all of them. blah blah blah. k. moving on.
I hope you guys are all doing well... Shoot me an email or a facebook message if you get bored!
Love,
~Kerry
Weekly update time!! Really not much to report... we had a pretty easy going weekend here, I slept a lot. Sleeping is good. :)
Last Wednesday, I went salsa dancing with a friend from the university. It was so fun - I had totally forgotten how much I love salsa dancing! There were some very good dancers - it was really fun to watch them, as well as dance myself. I can't help but think how random it is that I came to Egypt and am now salsa dancing again of all things. Hopefully I'll be going pretty regularly and practicing new moves and styling! funnnn!
Friday night, Christina and I successfully navigated the Cairo metro system to go to TGI Friday's along the Nile, in an area called Maadi. It was a fun roomie adventure - and definitely the best branch of this restaurant I've been to, especially since they had an awesome patio and shisha! Not to mention that we finally got our Mexican food fix - yay for fajitas!! We only got slightly lost twice - once in a cab when we were trying to get back to the metro station and the driver instead took us to a market called Metro Market. We had to call one of our friends and have him explain to the driver in Arabic where we actually wanted to go. The second time we got lost was while we were trying to get home from the metro station in Zamalek. Eventually we came up with the brilliant conclusion that since Zamalek is an island, and our apartment is on one edge of the island, that if we just stayed along the Nile, we would eventually reach home. This may have taken us slightly out of the way, but hey, it worked!
The next day, Saturday, we went to the Khan el Khalili marketplace to do some shoppin!! One of our Egyptian friends came with us and helped us get good deals on scarves. I now have a lifetime supply... We also went to Mahmoud's 4 story bellydance shop, where I set up a fitting for the first of many custom made costumes I plan to get while I'm here!! YAYYYY!!!! The first is a pharaonic style costume - turquoise, red, gold, Egyptiany... It's going to be amazing. I have my fitting tonight :D
School is finally becoming more routine and sorting itself out a bit - I am taking two Arabic classes, one modern standard Arabic and one Egyptian colloquial Arabic, and a developmental biology class. It is a less than full-time schedule, so I should have plenty of time for dancing, exploring, and having fun. I like all the classes, and am meeting nice people in all of them. blah blah blah. k. moving on.
I hope you guys are all doing well... Shoot me an email or a facebook message if you get bored!
Love,
~Kerry
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