Things have been going well in Cairo, its an awesome place to be and we have been having a good time. Julie and I just started teaching ( me yesterday - julie today). We teach for four hours straight which is kind of a drag and the kids are 14-16. Most of my class was pretty good , but I literally exhausted all my activity/game resources in the first day so I have no idea what else I can use on them ( also - the class goes from 9 am - 1pm, but the entire class was arrived and seated ready to start at 830 - lucky me).
Last night Julie and I had a pretty awesome experience. I managed to get connected with this egyptian man named Mahmoud ( never met him before but got his number through a friend of a friend..). So Mahmoud is super cool and invited Julie and I out with him and his crowd last night. We met him at horeya - which we completely forget that we had been to (DSS, Jake) a couple weeks ago. From there we went to the citadel for a music festival, 'Fete de la Musique'. It was awesome, the citadel was gorgeous and all the mosques were lit up , and you had an amazing view of the city. The concert was free and it was so good, when we got there it was this reggae band that was singing in French, and everyone was dancing (as were we), it was great. After the concert we went to the Cairo Jazz Club, which is also a super cool place - and when the other volunteers visit we should definitely all go. There was a really cool egyptian band that played old folk music , and the way everyone danced was hilarious , the egyptian men have no problems dancing and being physical with other men (in totally non sexual ways). It was great . We made plans to go back to the Jazz Club tommorow night with the other interns, which will be good so we can start getting to know them better.
Also: yesterday , julie and I went to Desert Safari to pick up our tickets to Alex that Moody got for us. We wound up staying for almost two hours listening to Ahmed tell us ghost stories- it was fantastic.
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