More Photos!

Hello! I've got more pictures to share, because pictures are pretty, and also because I am simultaneously lazy and have so much homework (not really but sort of). Anyway. We went to a beach/garden yesterday, which sounded awesome and turned out to be the opposite. It was really sketchy and dirty and totally not the tourist oasis I imagined. It was basically an Egyptian beach, gross falling apart bathrooms, trash in the water (not a lot, but it was there), huge band of tables and chairs and umbrellas between the beach and the water (so we couldn't really do anything anywhere without every single person staring at us and taking pictures). In the water, there wasn't really any empty space to swim, it was all occupied by mostly males of varying ages who would either stare, mutter things, try to talk to us, harass us, or do all of this and either edge closer or actually swim after us. AND all the people from my program who were in the water started playing some tossing a ball around game, which I do not enjoy, since then I had to watch out for creep ass men AND balls hitting me in the head. So, it was hard to relax. I finally gave in and joined the game once they started just playing keep away (they were playing some volleyball style thing that was just unwieldy and seemed dangerous to me). So, I had fun doing that. Then there was some mild social weirdness later at dinner, but I think my night ended up good since I left with three other girls and got dessert and chatted.

AND I booked a flight home for summer break! (I have no class from August 6th to September 26th). I fly home on August 7th, flying Egyptair to London but then United home, and I return on the 22nd with an 8 HOUR LAYOVER IN LONDON! I am thinking about that way more than I am thinking about coming back here in the fall. It's going to be amazing. Anyway, pictures! (My internet is bad, so I can only do a few, but that is more than none!)

The Tram (like a rickety old train thing that is super cheap and slow)



Beach...




Montaza Gardens...


More Montaza


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