Thursday, May 22, 2008

Day 2 May 23 – 12:25 AM – Dull? No.

( I am technically writing about yesterday,it is past midnight, but this is the best time for me to write)

Well today started out dull, I woke up a few hours before everyone else and just sat around in my room reading and sweating. Nobody else in the house in using AC and I don’t want to be only one. I may start using Chris’s patented trick of putting a wet towel over yourself when you sleep.
At around noon Dr. Hussein, wife, son, and I all drove downtown. I promise this will be my last rant about the drivers here. They are all crazy; I’m amazed there are not more car crashes. Every aspect of their driving is ridiculous, the speed, the prking, the order, seriously everything. I will try and take pictures.. A few errands later and we were back home.
I went to sleep at around 7 thinking that the action was done, not so. Around 9:30 the brother and sister knock on my door asking if I want to go the mall. I assumed they were talking about tomorrow, also not so. Well around 10 the three of us get into the car and drive to the mall. The minute I got out of the house I realized Cairo in nocturnal, the place comes alive at night. People were working, walking, and eating at 10 because the temperature was so comfortable at that time. The six story mall was beautiful, lots of restaurants, movie theaters, and classy shops. I ate at KFC, next to Pizza Hut, at least it’s not just Americans were making fat with fast food. I have no idea what I am doing tomorrow.

Oh, and I asked what Dr. Hussein thought about the Iraq War. He was opposed to it, but he argued that all wars are bad and talked about the cost in lives and health, not about American Imperialism, Oil, Bush, or the motive of this specific war.

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