Egypt: Cairo, aka who wants to play Frogger?
Yay, I'm in egypt.
lol
it all feels kind of surreal, like I'm going to wake up in my bed and go "oh, that didn't happen?"
Lets see, well first off, its a blistering 37 degrees today. and supposed to get up to 50 as we get farther south.
Our plane landed at one in the morning on thursday and we got a ride to the hotel from the hotel taxi.
If you've never driven in Egypt this will basically sum it up for you.
You will die.
Its just a fact you need to accept.
None of the cars have working seatbelts (i.e. they have the belt, nut nothing to clip it into, or vive versa) and no one drives between the lines. In fact, some times I'm positive they're trying to drive ON the lines. Most of the time you'll be in what is supposed to be a two lane rode but there will be four cars driving beside each other all trying to squeeze through. Oh, and there is no speed limits, you basically drive as fast as you can.
And here is the worst part.
There are people EVERYWHERE.
And I don't mean, oh there's a lot of people.
I mean, there are no crossing lights, so people will just walk into the middle of the street when people are driving 110 km/h and try to make they're way across. But you don't cross the whole road at once, cause that will get you killed. You cross one lane then wait in the middle of the road until it's clear to cross the next lane and so on.
You are literally playing a game of Frogger with you're life on the line.
Just thought I'd throw this in there, I miss my bead so much. I feel like I've been sleeping on cement for the past two days.
Anyway, today we went to Giza to see the pyramids and the sphinx. Which was awesome. I went inside the Second pyramid and fuck it was hot. And I started feeling claustrophobic. You basically walk down a path into the pyramid that's only 1 meter in height and width for about thirty feet till you get to the chamber. But it was worth it.
Then we saw the sphinx which was also awesome. Did you know it has cancer? Figuratively. It's degrading from the inside out due to pollution.
Sigh, I really miss home though. Can't wait to get back and eat some real food. I think I've only eaten less than half of everything I've been given, I just don't have the taste for the food here.
Oh, and some little voice in my head is telling me to say that I miss tina and my life is nothing without her.
:P
lol
it all feels kind of surreal, like I'm going to wake up in my bed and go "oh, that didn't happen?"
Lets see, well first off, its a blistering 37 degrees today. and supposed to get up to 50 as we get farther south.
Our plane landed at one in the morning on thursday and we got a ride to the hotel from the hotel taxi.
If you've never driven in Egypt this will basically sum it up for you.
You will die.
Its just a fact you need to accept.
None of the cars have working seatbelts (i.e. they have the belt, nut nothing to clip it into, or vive versa) and no one drives between the lines. In fact, some times I'm positive they're trying to drive ON the lines. Most of the time you'll be in what is supposed to be a two lane rode but there will be four cars driving beside each other all trying to squeeze through. Oh, and there is no speed limits, you basically drive as fast as you can.
And here is the worst part.
There are people EVERYWHERE.
And I don't mean, oh there's a lot of people.
I mean, there are no crossing lights, so people will just walk into the middle of the street when people are driving 110 km/h and try to make they're way across. But you don't cross the whole road at once, cause that will get you killed. You cross one lane then wait in the middle of the road until it's clear to cross the next lane and so on.
You are literally playing a game of Frogger with you're life on the line.
Just thought I'd throw this in there, I miss my bead so much. I feel like I've been sleeping on cement for the past two days.
Anyway, today we went to Giza to see the pyramids and the sphinx. Which was awesome. I went inside the Second pyramid and fuck it was hot. And I started feeling claustrophobic. You basically walk down a path into the pyramid that's only 1 meter in height and width for about thirty feet till you get to the chamber. But it was worth it.
Then we saw the sphinx which was also awesome. Did you know it has cancer? Figuratively. It's degrading from the inside out due to pollution.
Sigh, I really miss home though. Can't wait to get back and eat some real food. I think I've only eaten less than half of everything I've been given, I just don't have the taste for the food here.
Oh, and some little voice in my head is telling me to say that I miss tina and my life is nothing without her.
:P