Homestay Day/Night 3

Tuesday is our usual service project day and so I got to sleep in until about 9:00am. Something about Egyptian families is that when they are home they are in their pajamas until they leave the house. So I stayed in my pajamas until 4:00pm when I finally had to go to my service project. My day was filled with watching Tv, then being beckoned over to the computer to watch wrestling since I had expressed that I used to watch it (though we ended up watching some knock off with Hulk Hogan in it), then I watched the first Lord of the Rings movie. When it was time to go, I took a different way to get to my service project. I took a microbus (which is much tamer than a microbus in Nepal) to the Metro. My service project was great and we had a a great discussion at the end which allowed for our students to speak the English that they know. It was a lot of fun and they definitely enjoyed Kyra and my stories about our interactions with our family. Getting back was so much easier. Though I seemed to have lost all sense of direction being here, it was easy to hop off the Metro, get on the micro bus and walk home (I head left from "Crazy Hair" barbershop and turn left at the tires). I decided that instead of getting in a taxi and ending up who knows where, it is easier to ride the metro and take the microbus. The night was filled with power outages and time where I gave my gifts I brought from home (a can of California almonds and a book of San Francisco). They had me write notes in the book then my sister translated it to the family right front of me. It was a funny experience, they especially found it funny that I had written "Sorry you have to translate" on my sister's note and that I only wrote to the mom and Basma's fiance that I would be praying for them (though I totally will be praying for all of them). Afterward was dinner at 11:00pm where I ate a lot then was given two "gawaffa" (guava)to eat and then bed. Needless to say I went to bed stuffed full.