Monday, February 28, 2011

Oh so stuffed!!

Hi guys,

My friend Ahmed called me tonight and told me he was coming over. So I cleaned up the house and waited . . . and waited . . . and waited . . . and, no Ahmed! So I decided to go out for dinner. (I made a big batch of casserole a few days ago and have been having it for every meal. I finally got sick of it and decided I needed something else.) Anyway . . . I finished my dinner and was on my way to visit another friend when Ahmed called. Yep! He wanted to have dinner. So I met him at another restaurant and (you guessed it) had another dinner. I was already full after the first one, but it would've been rude not to eat with him. I have some new-found sympathy for pregnant women after this experience! :) I'm not planning to eat for a few days!

Oh, another funny story. When I was having dinner at the first restaurant, a guy came in and ordered some food. He had a bit of an accent, so the guys at the restaurant started joking around with him. When they found out where he was from, they started cracking jokes. (He's from a small village in the south of Egypt, by the way.) And suddenly it hit me . . . they're treating him the same way they treat me! Maybe it's not because I'm a foreigner. Maybe it's just because that's how they treat everyone. Anyway, I laughed right along with them.

Okay, that's it for now. Time to sit and let my dinners digest! :)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Home sweet . . . desert . . .

Hello Everyone . . .

I'm back in the desert. After many flights and many oceans, I'm back in Egypt!

I'd been following the news before I came back to see what things were like. And my first reaction is that things look just fine. There's nobody on the streets in my town, but I'd kind of expected that. I did see a tank of the side of the road yesterday on my way back from the airport, but it wasn't doing anything. I asked the taxi driver, and he said that things had been really calm in our town.

So, it looks like I've got some time off from work. I'm supposed to call the boss at lunch tomorrow and see what things look like. But aside from that, I've got cleaning, cooking, and chatting to do. Should be fun! I'll let you guys know how things go . . .