Five Days in Cairo (part 4)

Day five. I woke depressed. I didn’t know if I wanted to do something or do nothing. I had to pick up my costume from Madame Hekmet, so I went to do that while waiting for the other girls to get up and get dressed. The taxi driver didn’t know where I was going, so [...]

Five Days in Cairo (part III)

Day four arrived too late for breakfast, and I was starving! We didn’t have anything planned for today because we wanted to relax. The hectic pace was running us ragged. Though we didn’t want to miss a thing, we also didn’t want to make ourselves sick. A dance class would have been nice, but it [...]

Nile Cruise, A Relaxing Egyptian Adventure

Picture the Nile- the most impressive river in the world. This river gave food to the Pharaohs and nursed a great civilization to prosperity. It fed the western empires as well as the peoples along its own banks. Majestic and powerful, it is still the same wonderful force it was in days of old. The [...]

Five Days in Cairo (part 2)

Day two of my first five days in Cairo arrived for us at 2:00 in the afternoon. Danielle was simply exhausted and decided to stay in bed. Daleela and I decided to walk down to Mohamed Ali Street confident that we could find the way. After a few blocks, uncertainty overcame me. We stopped to [...]

Five Days in Cairo (part one)

Wednesday, my first day in Cairo, started with a midnight arrival. As we flew over the city, I was in awe at how big it was. It seemed we flew for miles and miles before we touched down. The lights chased away any fatigue I had been feeling. Excitement raced through me as I walked [...]