Day 2

Sorry, no pictures this time.

Let me preface this by stating that things are getting better.

We have a quazi home in Dokki where our hotel is, we are learning prices (prices for everything in our heads have gone down by basically half) and we continue to improve. Our arabic is bad, and the Egyptian accent is non-understandable, but I will say that we are getting better.

Today, we slept. I've been trying to wake up two hours earlier every day, i think tomorrow my goal is to get breakfast. My roommate is not fairing so well, he still slept until 3.

But I was up at noon, and I went and took a stroll down the main dokki street, el tahirir. My mission? Find some yogurt and some milk. And a wallet (i figure my old wallet for my old stuff, but i need another one for my egyptian pounds).

So, that is the crux of my situation, and down the street I stroll. I find a little grocery store, and lo! They have milk. Its pretty expensive (a little over $1 for a liter), but I figure its worth it, so I pick it up. Wow, it was amazing. I couldn't find any yogurt (I'm still shocked at that), so we'll see what I can find later.

So I stroll home, eat some cereal, and then we chill for a few hours waiting for our friends from downtown to give us a ring.

We went and explored the subway system. Its very nice (nicer than NYC's for sure). It is like the 3rd largest by passengers per day in the world, and its busy. Its one pound for a trip one way ($.17). You just get off whenenver you need to. So we jimmied over to downtown, and walked around, finally found our friends, went to a quazi western resturant (they have semi-english menus if you need them, and its not sit down, in fact there are no chairs, you just stand up and eat). My schwarma sandwich was better than yesterdays. It has this hummus on it. So stuff just keeps getting better.

Its a pretty anti climactic day. We just eat, chill, get some more numbers of new people and take the subway back to Dokki.

Tomorrow, apparently we are either going to AUC for a while, or we're headed to Maadi to meet with a realtor. Exciting. I can't wait for a place to truly call home.

Talk to everyone tomorrow.