okay, very different pictures ... one is of Joyce, walking among the headstones of al-Alamein's Allied/Commonwealth cemetery; one is of the beach at Marsah Matruh (yes, this was the view we all had from our hotel rooms); one is our "group shot" in the middle of nowhere! -- our bus broke down 1 hour away from Siwa, and our incredible students were all just so wonderful, not one of them complained one bit! And instead, we turned it into a chance for "fun in the desert" and on a deserted stretch of street, where hardly any vehicles - and no human beings, other than the bus/truck drivers - dared to venture; and the final one is our group shot in Siwa.as for the bus break-down (with plenty of water and shade and lots of sand to explore!), we solved the lack of transportation soon enough - I phoned our hotel in Siwa and they sent us 2 vans, which took about 90 minutes to appear ... so, all in all, we only had about a 2-hour delay from our arrival in Siwa. Again, our students were "troopers", as they have been for the past 6 weeks, rolling with the punches, enjoying life in Cairo and throughout Egypt ... and here was another example of their enjoyment, their "rolling" and of taking the occasional "lemon" of an experience and turning it into "lemonade" :-)
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