Second Day (What an Original Title)

Today was ok. At 8:00 took a shuttle bus with the other international students to the downtown campus, which is where classes have been held until this year-- now many classes will be in the "New Cairo" campus, a new suburb located, I believe, on the fringes on the desert. There was a very long wait in a sweltering line for some breakfast, than the typical welcome speech and a bunch of booths with information on various practical needs-- transportation, health, visas, cash, etc.

I took a brief hour-long bus tour around the city-- it was actually pretty lame. I knew I should have just walked around...i'll remember that next time. Tonight was fun though- I wandered around with my roommate Ryan searching for a place to eat some actual Egyptian food, and after probably half an hour and a lot of retracing our steps we found a grubby little joint on one of the main roads leading into the neighborhood. It was similar to pita bread, in that it opened up, and I chose some sausage-type meat, salad, and a tomato-cheese-ish sauce to put in mine. I got two, which were pretty good, for only 3 pounds-- about 60 cents. Not bad. Then we wandered around to see if we could grab a beer somewhere, but there were no visible places that were not clearly really expensive-- not the local kind of establishment we were looking for.

I've been bumming around in the room since then-- a few minutes ago I realized that less than a day after starting this blog thing, I'd already managed to lock myself out. Solid. So i got a new password.

With love