"Routine" in Cairo ...

I think the "bloom is off the rose" or whatever the phrase is to suggest the "honeymoon is over."  Not that folks have fallen out of love with Cairo, but that we are all in a fairly routine pace these days ... classes 4 days per week, 4 hours per day; homework and cramming for quizzes in afternoons; plus service learning project work; plus the occasional added activity (all required but still "added on" to the core work we're doing).  These activities include: "dialogues" with Egyptian students (our first was on Monday May 19th and all accounts suggest our students loved it ... lots of "Facebook-ing" going on now between American and Egyptian students); we're heading off to see the film version of our novel, Yacoubian Building (today at 3:30 pm Cairo time).

LOOKING TOWARD TOMORROW -- U.S. EMBASSY & ARAB LEAGUE visits!!!  (AFTER our class meetings)

Then a fairly free Friday ... the best day in Cairo ... no traffic!  quiet mornings ... Some students are already planning a return to the Pyramids for horse-back riding.  Saturday most students (i.e., those who did not go last Saturday) will take the tour of Islamic Cairo (see posting below on last Saturday's tour).  

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