Cairo life

Nobody's blogging! What's going on? Only Pink and Jughead have exams, what's everyone else doing?

Anyway, we're planning lots of mischief this week, well as mischievous as we get anyway. Today Bikey, her flatmates, our teachers and I all went to the Cairo International Book Fair, which is basically like a giant funfair, but with books instead of rides, if you can imagine that. People treat it as a Big Day Out for all the family, and spend all day strolling around, browsing the stalls and shops and eating. There's a great selection of books there, although in the English section, which we discovered at the last minute, everything is the same price as at home so there's no point doing much except flicking through there. Arabic books are another story - there's a huge selection on every subject you can think of: fantastic if you're an Arab, but still great if you're learning.

I picked up a few things, including calligraphy books (inspired by Bikey) and pocket dictionaries, but will be going back again with Mr C so didn't go overboard. The fact that we have plenty of books already at home is also a factor, as there's no point buying massive tomes which we're not going to read, especially if they're in a foreign language.

We are also getting tickets tomorrow for the Africa Cup of Nations Egypt Vs Ivory Coast game, which should be cool. It will be the first football game I've ever been to in my life (I can imagine Nasim -Mr C's cousin who holds a season ticket at Tottenham and goes to every game - shaking his head in disbelief at this point). We were warned not to go to the Egypt vs Morocco game on Tuesday as they apparently get very violent - Egypt and Morocco are bitter enemies. Mr C is escorting us all (all being myself, Bikey, her 2 flatmates Naveed and Sarwath and Ustadha Ayah, Bikey's teacher) as it's not a place to go without a man, apparently. Doubtless he will protect us all to his utmost capability.