I haven’t written much the last few days because I’ve been a bit sick – allergies or a cold – for the last few days and haven’t been up to anything really. It’s sort of annoying to be sick my last week here, and I hope that I’m better tomorrow so I can actually get up to something during my last four days in Egypt.
Today I had my last Arabic lesson, which went pretty well I think. Overall, I feel like I improved my Arabic a fair amount while I was here. I still am fairly uncomfortable when I speak – I get nervous easily – but my vocabulary is more robust and I understand more. Hopefully I can keep working on it when I get back home.
I mostly wrote today to post a few pictures I took the other night while I was on a walk. Just three or four, all of my neighborhood here. Two are of Qasr al-Einy, the main street that is near my house which is always busy and makes my daily crossings fairly harrowing. Another is of the corner store where I buy my water and other items all the time, and the last is of a juice shop open late into the night after everything else had closed.
sorry to hear you’re are still feeling low — especially since i know it must feel like you are just letting the last few days slip away.
but from here, even the few pictures from the neighborhood all seems so exciting and exotic that its hard to see that anytime you spent there could be anything other than a thrill
i am really glad you did this blog and want you to know that it let me feel really in touch, not just with you, but with the places you have visited and the sights you have seen. thanks for that.
and thanks for being my kid — i can’t wait for you to get home. and i mean AUSTIN, not NEW YORK
love ya