A Day

So people have been asking what my daily schedule is like well...

I get up at 6:30 everyday, then walk for about a quarter of a mile to the side of the highway ... yes side of the highway, where I then proceed to flag down a microbus. What is a microbus you might ask? Its a privately owned mini van that costs one pound. It has no specific route and you must shout a to the driver where you'd like to go and pray that hes going that way. This past week I had quite a the microbus fiasco, I didnt specify where I wanted to go and I ended up in the middle of nowhere and had to call me host dad to come and get me.
If all goes well on the micro bus I then proceed to walk a bit more to the metro station take it about 15 mins to Sadat, then power walk about a mile or so more to Garden City and hope that I make it to school on time.

Then School school school school.

The way home is an adventure in itself. I then take a mini bus to a mosque, findo micro busses and proceed to ask in my broken arabic, if they are going in the direction that I need. Sometimes Ill find a sweet old dirver who understands that I'm not from here and helps me out, but usually the drivers arent so nice.

I often times wonder why I do this I could complain, whine, ask the government to provide me with a private car, but truly this is Egypt. People playing frogger across busy highways with their lives, being stuck between the busom of some lady in the womans car on the train, handing your money down an assmbly line of perfect strangers on the bus, yes this is Egypt. And from these enlightening and sometimes terrifying experiences slowly but surely I am learning to understand the spirit of the Egyptian people.