Arriving in Cairo

يمابش مابخة

Greetings from Egypt!

Me and a group of 30 students from the states landed in Cairo this afternoon at around 2:00.  The landing is basically in the desert, and when we got out of the plane it was around 105 degrees.  Right now its past 8 and dark and still in the high 80’s.  It was exciting to drive through the city to where our neighborhood is.  We live about 4 blocks from the Nile River.  I live on the 7th floor of a high rise apt. complex with 7 other guys.  We have a 3 bedroom/2 bath place that is pretty sweet.  We are right above a main street, so its pretty noisy, but awesome!  Pretty tired right now, but wanted to just let everyone know I made it.  This week is orientation, so I will be getting to know the city and learning more about what to expect living here.  I will definitely be updating with reports and pictures soon.

If you haven’t noticed, there are a few nifty updates to the site I’ve made.  For one, you can access never before seen Mozambique photos and some other goodies from my time home in San Diego in the “gallery” section of the site.  The “contact” section now also includes a form for sending me e-mail that is extremely easy to use.  If you just follow the obvious instructions (a 2 year old could do it), then i will receive your message from you’re e-mail address – awesome, huh?  I want it to be easy for you to e-mail me for a purpose, I don’t want to fall out of touch with you, so drop me a note, ask me a question, and let me know what’s up!  I have wireless in my apt…although it’s sketch (I’m sitting on the balcony hijacking some neighbors signal).

Anyways, enjoy the site, and hope to hear from you!  Love from Egypt,

Brian

PS – Don’t give me too much credit yet about the Arabic I wrote at the top, it’s jiberish, I just figured it looked pretty impressive.  I’ve been here one day, I’ll learn though.