and there are cats everywhere. But not your average cute house cat... nope, gross skinny wild city cats. and they hang out outside of apartments and on top of garbage piles. There are also dogs everywhere. Makes me sort of wish I got my rabies shot... but really they haven't come up to me, so far so good.
There are also many donkeys. They look like they are dead on their feet.
As for being a teacher I'm very interested to see how it goes. Maadi has roundabouts at every intersection. The streets here don't cross, in the middle of the main roundabouts there "parks" or "meeting places". But the interesting thing is they are called Squares, even though they are definitely circles. And the children here live a completely different life style. Earlier today we saw a man (probably the father) run for a taxi away from his kids. They were running after him, and his five(ish) year old son was running after him in the middle of the fairly busy street (comparable to Meadowood drive if you know where that is... but actually it really isn't comparable because if Meadowood drive has three lanes, one for parking and two for driving, this street had one of those lanes and it was used for parking and two way driving).
Ya know how in Winnipeg when you start the taps the cold water is warm for a second then turns cold? In egypt it is cold for a second then turns warm. When I have a shower I use only the cold tap but wish my shower could be colder.
It is Ramadan which means Muslims fast during sunlight hours and pray more often. They prayer often startles me and sounds a little bit scary. i know this is only because I am not used to it so with time it will become "normal".
Speaking if eating (dad, tell grandma) I didn't eat breakfast today. They put a little bit of food in our fridge but the milk comes in what looks like a sunrype juice container and its basically half and half which is sooo thick and gross, and the bread just didn't look that appatizing at all. but i had forgotten about ramadan so then i was starved by lunch. we went to the mall and i ate at Chili's with a girl named Erika who will teach grade nine and ten. She lives quite close and is really nice. At the mall we had about an hour and a half and by the time we finished eating We only had about half an hour. Oh by the way I had chicken tacos which came with rice and black beans. It was great. Anyway so we only had about half an hour left to shop which was definitely not enough time. Carrefour is like walmart there was so much stuff and we definitely still have to convert the money to canadian so we know how much things cost. it is very shocking at first to see the price of thngs. for example my chicken tacos cost 29.99 pounds plus I got a drink so my meal cost about 35 with tip... but really that isn't bad at all because you divide all amounts by five so it was only 7 bucks!
For dinner went to Lucille's turns out they have the "best burger in the world" according to a writer at Time magazine. I think I agree it was SO delicious and giant... and The restaurant was opened by and owned by a women!
Oh and I learned how to say left, right and straight in arabic which will be VERY helpful for taxis when i finally learn where I am going!
Speaking if eating (dad, tell grandma) I didn't eat breakfast today. They put a little bit of food in our fridge but the milk comes in what looks like a sunrype juice container and its basically half and half which is sooo thick and gross, and the bread just didn't look that appatizing at all. but i had forgotten about ramadan so then i was starved by lunch. we went to the mall and i ate at Chili's with a girl named Erika who will teach grade nine and ten. She lives quite close and is really nice. At the mall we had about an hour and a half and by the time we finished eating We only had about half an hour. Oh by the way I had chicken tacos which came with rice and black beans. It was great. Anyway so we only had about half an hour left to shop which was definitely not enough time. Carrefour is like walmart there was so much stuff and we definitely still have to convert the money to canadian so we know how much things cost. it is very shocking at first to see the price of thngs. for example my chicken tacos cost 29.99 pounds plus I got a drink so my meal cost about 35 with tip... but really that isn't bad at all because you divide all amounts by five so it was only 7 bucks!
For dinner went to Lucille's turns out they have the "best burger in the world" according to a writer at Time magazine. I think I agree it was SO delicious and giant... and The restaurant was opened by and owned by a women!
Oh and I learned how to say left, right and straight in arabic which will be VERY helpful for taxis when i finally learn where I am going!
I'm looking forward to posting pictures so you can actually get an idea of all the thing I am talking about!
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Kail you are amazing!
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