Orientation is Over.

Tonight concluded the end of our Orientation period. For the past few days we have been touring the city on a bus or trying to get around through various scavenger hunt activities. It has been so interesting learning how to ask various questions knowing that you are speaking very broken Arabic.

We have done a lot of things: used the Metro and used a taxi, went to a city called the Garbage city, saw an amazing coptic christian church in , visited a Mosque during service, smoked shisha in this nice downtown area, took a felucca down the Nile.

Orienting myself to the people here in Egypt and to the people of my co-hort has been great. It will be cool to also start classes on Wednesday and get a set pattern to normal day life here. Tomorrow we start our service projects that we will be doing every Tuesday. I will be teaching an English class with a friend named Kyra but tomorrow actually we will be working in this orphanage in garbage city that we had gone to do today.

Please email me with any questions or comments if you want! (potticus@gmail.com). Sometimes I feel like blogs are so impersonal!