*Tumbleweed*

Ugh... As soon as I find a free 10 mins I'll post about last weekend.

Hell, it's halfway to next weekend already...

Egypt - 150 Days Later

Patience

I've begun to notice that the little quirks about life in Cairo no longer make me say "Ah well, it's Egypt..."; lightheartedness replaced with impatience and frustration. It's not time to go home yet though, and there's no ringing out in this battle of wills. Deep breaths, held faith, and patience.

"I would like very much for a beautiful woman to hand me a glass of very cold beer..."
Dr Jon Osterman
Watchmen

Previously, on ChrisP...

Damn. Bad updating habits strike again, as does the ubiquitous large update posting...

- Since Dahab life has involved less traveling, about which I'm not complaining. It's been good to actually spend a couple of weekends in Cairo seeing friends, doing stuff, not doing stuff, lounging around the apartment in shorts on hot afternoons. I'm getting used to life here for sure, or at least the things that frustrate me are slowly getting fewer and further between occurances, even if I could do with learning some more Arabic vocab.

- Misadventures have been mainly confined to missing the first 5 minutes of The Simpsons Movie due to the film starting 15 mins before the ticket said it would. Although Kent and I missed the couch gag, it was a pretty solid film.

- A couple of times over the last week I've gone to Al-Azhar Park near the Citadel in Cairo - a beautiful spot that allows you to see the chaos that is Cairo but not hear it, save for the calls to prayer that float over the breeze throughout the day. Especially since it's somewhat cooled down over the last week, a perfect place to spend an evening, filled with young couples, families, children playing on the grass just like they do everywhere else in the world.

- Egypt welcomed yet another nomad this past week (and his luggage several days later) as Luke joins the party already in progress. One week in and he has a fan, a settled stomach and is able to buy fuul and metro tickets by himself - soon (so Kent and Adam hope) mastery of the AIESEC systems will also join that list of accomplishments.

- Sadly, as new faces arrive old ones must leave. The next couple of weeks will see the departure of several trainees including Kent "Jesus" Babin and several of the Dahab adventurers from the other weekend. Scrabble Night will never be the same again.

- Took one step back into the AIESEC Experience with an application to the Egyptian National Trainers Team. Definitely not done with the membership yet...

- SSC begins today. It feels strange to have barely thought of it over the last few months; stranger still to think of the people that I know and love that won't be there. No Jen & Jill, no Franky, no Clarali, no Trent, no Sarah, no David Z, Williams or Luke (but he's here, so that's kinda different). I left 6 months ago and already everything has changed so much.

...I have no idea how to end this post with panache. Seriously, I've been sitting here for 5 minutes and nothing. So... yeah.