My Cairo

Things have started to slow down I think =). We have settled into the Cosmo Hotel and started classes at the American University in Cairo. Cairo is a great city so far. I haven't seen much of it because I got a bit sick this first week here, but I'm on the mend and am planning to explore!

Last night there was a huge soccer game in Egypt. The Egypt national team played Algeria to qualify for the world cup. The shop keepers outside our hotel set up sheets in the middle of the road to project the game. The game started at 7:30 but the cheering and noise started at 3! It was nuts. I went out to watch the start of the game, but I am WAY too short to see anything in a crowd so I went back inside and watched it in my room. It was really cool to be a part of that type of community again - I've missed it since the Beshiktash game in Istanbul.

Nothing else is really new. We've been occupying ourselves by doing homework, watching the one english channel we get that has really good movies, and hanging out. Things are going to start picking up because we start touring egypt every time we don't have classes.