Today was a good day :-) After getting ready I ventured out to find the Maadi hotel to meet my principal and all the other new teachers. When I got there, the others were surprised about how much I already knew. Then the principal showed up and we got to meet her. She seems very nice. She gave us some info and then sent us on our way until a driver came to pick everyone up to go look at flats. During this time I went up to the roof of the hotel and got to see a very good view of the Nile river and the pyramids! I was so excited because this is the first "touristy" place I have seen since I have been here. There was also a pool on top of the roof...Interesting. Then we all went to lunch down the street and had good conversations and got to know each other. After, they all met the driver so they could go look at flats. I tagged along because I never had the experience of getting to go look at flats for rent since I already had my place. Some of the places were...interesting. But there were a lot of nice places too. Tonight I got to go out with this same group of people as well as some teachers who have been here for a while. We exchanged stories and laughed a lot. It was a great day of getting to know new people who were at the school for the very first year and also those who had been around for a while. I am really going to like my staff! They seem fun and they all love to travel, so it looks as if I may have a few travel buddies :-)
One sad thing though:
I saw a little one get hit by a car while on his bike. I wanted to stop my taxi and help out because the driver of the car and some others standing around were all arguing. they finally went over to help him. He was limping and didn't look like he was in too good of shape. My taxi went around all of them and kept going. I am not sure how much help I would have been but my heart still went out to him.
Speaking of taxi's. Every taxi I have been in so far, the driver knew enough English to get me to my destination or I knew enough Arabic to tell him where to go. So taxi's have been pretty easy to use, except for the whole game of chicken and no laws to follow thing. Anyway Love you all!
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