Yes I AM in Egypt, thank you for asking.
And it is and isn't exactly what I expected at the same time.
I am sitting in an internet place with 6 OLD school computers (think 4th grade Samsungs that don't even fit on the desk because the back goes back so far) and it intimidated the shit out of me trying to log into my email and then this blog when the home pages are in Arabic.
I have learned a bit of Egyptian Arabic, as in, like, 5 phrases that I wanted to say when walking through the streets. It really is beautiful.
Speaking of beautiful, Egyptians are freaking gorgeous! They are a very exotically lovely group of people. Amazing skin and eyes, definitely. Especially our guide on this little excursion, Yassir. We have all fallen madly in love with him.
Another topic brought on by Yassir, the people here are also amazing because they all speak about 10 languages. Seriously, I am AMAZED at their capacity to learn and speak the languages of the world. It's more a necessity than a choice, though, because they make their livelihood out of talking tourists into buying their junk.
But seriously, at the monuments there are tons and tons of tourists from all over the world but in the cities like where I am in Aswan there aren't as many in the actual city. Sarai, Louise and I walked and walked all day yesterday in the not as horrible as I had anticipated heat and we saw very few other Westerners. We all expect to see many more when we get into Cairo later today.
Yassir speaks incredible Spanish, though. Our group is 14 people, all native Spanish speakers from Spain and 2 guys our age from Argentina and so the whole trip is in Spanish. I have spoken more Spanish in Egypt than I did on any given week in Spain all semester. Funny.
I know this blog has jumped around a ton but I had to write as quickly as I could for 20 minutes because I don't want to pay for another half hour. It's not expensive, we just have to get back to the boat because we're leaving for the airport in a bit.
I will say this, though. We went on a little excursion through the desert on camels this morning to a little Nubian village and hung out with them for a while and did some sweet stuff.
Then I swam in the Nile. Yes, THE Nile. It's all pretty dirty, but Aswan is right on the lake where the Nile begins and so the mouth is really clean.
And wait until I can show you all the photos of this HUGE ASS lake that justs hangs out in the middle of the freaking Egyptian desert. It was incredible.
I'll write more later!
I WILL BE BACK IN CALIFORNIA IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!! Then the comeback tour commences...
