the super late first cairo post
so i have been in cairo for two weeks now and have been promising a mass email/blog post pretty much every day since then but i guess it's time to actually do it now. i have now found an apartment, figured out out to grocery shop, come to understand the beauty of dry heat, been taken (slight) advantage of by a shop owner, been terribly lost and told "i love you" by a very strange egyptian man, started classes, been to alexandria, and (maybe) adopted a kitten. it's been eventful. i have not been to the pyramids.
looking for an apartment in cairo was actually not as difficult as i thought it was going to be before i got here. i went around with my roommate katie and a couple of guys, tim and michael, the first day after we got here just looking around, talking to doormen in a neighborhood close to the university. we wound up meeting a simsar, which is like a real estate agent only significantly more shady, who showed us a place in mounira, which is across qasr al-aini from garden city (for those of you who have been to cairo). it's right above the french cultural center, which means free internet and clean/edible salad and delicious crepes downstairs, and about a 10-15 minute walk from the university, which is nice. there's a metro stop close by, which makes it much easier to get places. the metro here is super nice and super cheap (1 pound per ride - the conversion rate is about 5.3 pounds/dollar, so that's less than 20 cents). it's way way cleaner than new york's subway, and there's an all-women car at least during the day. the only problem is that it stops running at midnight, but cabs are not expensive either. we took a cab back from our friends' place (in doqqi, which is on the other side of the nile) for about 7 or 8 pounds really late at night.
the apartment is pretty nice and i really like the neighborhood, but we are going to have to move in the fall because the university is moving way out of cairo. we're not sure where we're going to go yet but hopefully everything will be okay and it will be easy enough to find an apartment again.
the neighborhood around the apartment is pretty cool. we went grocery shopping, but there really aren't any western-style supermarkets in my neighborhood so that meant pretty much going to a bunch of different places to get different things. buying vegetables was kind of a huge adventure which ended in me buying about a kilo of onions, carrots, peppers, and garlic for less than 4 pounds. we went to this stand in the market on the street and practiced arabic and of course in the end the guy wanted to exchange phone numbers because that's how they do here in cairo. i said no, but it was a struggle because he was super cute. perhaps i will eat more vegetables this year.
okay, damn, my computer battery is now dying. i'm going to go finish some homework and then i'll write more and post it in the morning. (there's no internet in my apartment, so i just use the free internet down at the french cultural center.)
looking for an apartment in cairo was actually not as difficult as i thought it was going to be before i got here. i went around with my roommate katie and a couple of guys, tim and michael, the first day after we got here just looking around, talking to doormen in a neighborhood close to the university. we wound up meeting a simsar, which is like a real estate agent only significantly more shady, who showed us a place in mounira, which is across qasr al-aini from garden city (for those of you who have been to cairo). it's right above the french cultural center, which means free internet and clean/edible salad and delicious crepes downstairs, and about a 10-15 minute walk from the university, which is nice. there's a metro stop close by, which makes it much easier to get places. the metro here is super nice and super cheap (1 pound per ride - the conversion rate is about 5.3 pounds/dollar, so that's less than 20 cents). it's way way cleaner than new york's subway, and there's an all-women car at least during the day. the only problem is that it stops running at midnight, but cabs are not expensive either. we took a cab back from our friends' place (in doqqi, which is on the other side of the nile) for about 7 or 8 pounds really late at night.
the apartment is pretty nice and i really like the neighborhood, but we are going to have to move in the fall because the university is moving way out of cairo. we're not sure where we're going to go yet but hopefully everything will be okay and it will be easy enough to find an apartment again.
the neighborhood around the apartment is pretty cool. we went grocery shopping, but there really aren't any western-style supermarkets in my neighborhood so that meant pretty much going to a bunch of different places to get different things. buying vegetables was kind of a huge adventure which ended in me buying about a kilo of onions, carrots, peppers, and garlic for less than 4 pounds. we went to this stand in the market on the street and practiced arabic and of course in the end the guy wanted to exchange phone numbers because that's how they do here in cairo. i said no, but it was a struggle because he was super cute. perhaps i will eat more vegetables this year.
okay, damn, my computer battery is now dying. i'm going to go finish some homework and then i'll write more and post it in the morning. (there's no internet in my apartment, so i just use the free internet down at the french cultural center.)
posted by Dana at 5:49 PM
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enjoyed it. keep writing. love you.
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"i said no, but it was a struggle because he was super cute. perhaps i will eat more vegetables this year"
I love your insight and musings
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