These past couple of days have been quite the trip! It has been so fascinating navigating the streets of cairo and familiarizing myself with ways to direct a taxi in the right direction - 'yimeen, shamaal, a la tool!!' - and I think I finally know my way home to Zamalek now :)
Last night was such a random amazing night with the LE crew - Mama K, Kenneth, Rachel, Sharon, moi - we went to a party of my sisters friend whom I had never met before, and it was fantastic - complete with a traditional Yemeni feast of a big rice platter with chicken eaten on the floor, chai, desserts, hummus, and Charades!! A majority of the people were students studying in Egypt (our kind of crowd) and we learned how competitive we can all become. Our team (Rachel and mine) lost miserably unfortunately but we are planning to have a game/party/rematch night at our apartment.
Today, I taught one level 9 class, the highlight of the class was trying to describe what an attic is in the simplest terms which somehow stemmed into discussing ghosts. The students have opened up a lot since the first class, maybe its because I had them discuss their childhood in detail :) that will crack open almost anyone. I'm still working on trying to get them to participate willingly so I don't have to call on students that have a deer-in-headlights look on their face. I was told that it is customary for Egyptian students to just be lectured and then they go home and memorize - rather than the more hands-on American approach I am accustomed to.
After class, I jetsetted my way home so Sharon and I could make it a Sufi dance show at Al Ghuraya. It is free and open to the public 8:30pm on Wednesdays & Saturdays. It was phenomenal - the songs that were sung really hit my core and I found myself swaying to the out-of-control beat of the 'tabla' drum played by a musician there - I really don't know how its humanly possible to create a beat so fast, but he did it and he did it well. There were a lot of tourists, and that made it awkward bc they clapped after eveything and the sufi dance is so personal/ religiously profound to me that it felt weird to demean it to just a 'show', but it was definitely applause worthy!!
Tomorrow... we conquer the pyramids of Giza :)
HIBA
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Hiba, what are you doing??????
Cairo's so big and you're so SMALL!
sounds amazing! I miss you
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