We have been in Egypt
For the record, it is not nearly as scary here as everyone made it out to be. At least, that has been my experience in my mere 5 days here. I’m really looking forward to beginning language lessons, as that will help with making friends and listening in when they don’t know it. haha
Our flat is lovely. I will show you pictures soon, when we have a faster internet. But for now, it is amazing. There are lots of cabinets in the kitchen and the living room, dining room area is huge! There is a washer and dryer in the big bathroom. On Monday, when we moved in, there were no dishes or pots and pans or anything in the kitchen. So much of our time has been spent finding suitable kitchen wares to set up housekeeping.
The shopping here is quite fun. There are streets of shops. Each shop is devoted to an item or type of item. There are kitchen shops, fruit stands, cell phone shops, food markets, kids clothes shops, dry cleaning shops. One man fixes tires on the side of the street. We walked into a shop that was about 8’by 8’ square, wall to wall, floor to ceiling with old-school office supplies. We bought tape there.
Some of our friends here have a car and they spent the earlier part of the week shuttling us from shop to shop helping us get set up. But most of the time we will walk to local shops or use the taxi’s. We are a bit nervous to use a taxi currently because while we know the driver can get us to the Metro Market, we aren’t sure they can get us home or if we could tell them how to get us home.
Today we walked down to our local shops, but today was their holy day, so not all of them were open. However, we found a Chinese food restaurant and ate dinner there. It was amazingly delicious. We figured it had to be good because all the Chinese were eating there….. and it was good. Even things we didn’t think would be good was wonderful.
There are a couple of downsides. A new water heater was put in not long after we moved in, but it only stays hot long enough for a very short shower. We are quickly learning to ration our hot water during our shower. It reminds me of two summers ago when we spent the summer in the RV. There was very limited hot water there as well.… which is why I always took a shower at the bathhouse. But I’m remembering the techniques I used when the bathhouses were unavailable.
I’m looking forward to having my sink fixed in the kitchen as well. When we moved in, the hot water faucet was broken, but there was water. Now the hose from the sink to the drain has disconnected so I’ve been washing dishes in the bathroom sink. The upside to washing dishes in the bathroom is that the bathroom continually stays very clean. Oh, that and we have clean dishes.
Altogether, I like it here. Despite some of the inconveniences, I like it. I really like it.
We should have high-speed internet in a couple of weeks, so I will post pictures then.
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