This is how we roll

Ok so at the moment we are receiving 'backwards' prank phone calls - where they call the apartment (I didn't even realize we had a land line phone number) and speak in arabic but get upset when we dont answer in arabic, even though they are calling us. its actually very amusing. also, Sharon is on the phone with her family discussing her phone drama and how she can't hang up on anyone bc her phone won't let her so they have to hang up on her. I'm still laughing at the arabic prank phone call it was hilarious.
Today, we went to City Stars with Sharon, Rachel, Kathy, Zehra (my sisters friend), and Sadya & Henrietta (my friends from SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies in London) - city stars is quite the 'happenin' place, let me tell you - except everything is overpriced, which is really sad considering some of the stuff in there is how much a regular egyptian makes a month. I even think its expensive with the american conversion rate! the huge gap in the social classes of cairo are a very interesting topic, especially from an outsiders view on it. It seems as if the gap is getting bigger, and now they are building bridges over the poor parts of cairo , so the upper class merely can peer at it below them as they cruise above it in their luxury vehicles of choice - interesting, no?
Todays class was awesome, we had a really fun time learning about the phrase 'used to' - past tense! The students were at first hesitant to participate in the 'used to' game where they had to find people who 'used to' do certain things, but then they got into it when Sadek & Kathy - two visiting teachers :) helped pushed them along :) it was so cute. Then Sadek volunteered to show a movie that was relevant to my lesson, it was all about immigrants in the States and things they miss from home, so it was a really nice cultural exchange.
Then during my office hours, my two students Michael and Michael sat and chatted with me for a while, they they wanted to show me Santa Barbara (the church we teach at), and on the way there we saw the children practicing drums near the Monastery where the Nuns stay. The church was so interesting and very very historic, you could feel it in the air... on my way home, they invited me to a concert on july 15th with them at the Cairo Opera for Mohammad Munir, which is apparently Cairo's latest super star, so that should be interesting. Also - all of my students are on facebook, and that is kinda weirding me out hehe.

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