Skype, the Hard Rock and long walks

5/16:

Woke up SUPER early (like 7 am) to drag myself over to the internet café across the street. 7 am may not seem that early, but it definitely felt early. Why was I getting up so early on a Sunday? Well, when it was 7 am here in Egypt, it was midnight on Saturday in Boston and I wanted to go to a graduation party….via Skype.

My roommate, Ashley, graduated this May and is leaving for New York this fall ☹ The week before I left for Egypt we were talking about how it was a bummer that I was going to miss it and I jokingly told her to skype me into it. We realized that it was actually a good idea. So I got up early and got to say hello to Ash and Liz (my other roommate) and the guys.

The one thing I didn’t take into consideration was how annoyed the other people in the internet café would be at me as I kinda yelled into the computer to the kids on the screen…. they were not pleased. In fact, our skype sess. had to be cut a little short because of the looks I was getting from the café manager….Even when were an ocean apart, we nearly get kicked out of wherever we go together. Love these girls.

Later, Meg, Avery and myself went on a 3 hour walk around Zamelek taking pictures. Even though it was hot as B***S, it was an amazing walk! I got a lot more pictures for my graffiti project and got to take in some Egyptian street culture at a slower pace. Meg and Avery were getting great stuff too, including a bunch portraits of all the people who saw us walking around with cameras and stopped us and asked us to take their pictures. (by ask I mean point at the camera and then themselves while saying some stuff in Arabic that I totally couldn’t understand.)

Me, Meg, Clancy and Kelley went to the dinner at the Hard Rock Café Cairo, we figured that it couldn’t be toooooo long of a walk, wrong. It was not nearly as close as we thought, but after an hour and a half of walking we found it and had some fantastic nachos and milkshakes :-D


p.s. It was 110 degrees today in Cairo! BLAH!