First days

I arrived to Egypt Tuesday afternoon after three flights, and having to walking a million miles on the Frankfort airport. I had 40 minutes between flights, and it seemed like I was never gonna get there. I kept seeing signs for terminal D, but it seemed as it terminal D never arrived. I finally made it to my gate I asked the man who was standing there it it was the flight to Cairo turns out there was a gate change. I finally made it to the gate, I waited 5 minutes and we all got into a bus to drive to our plain. I could barely stand still, kept falling into people. One family kept looking at me and started talking to me in Arabic. I kept saying no for everything they asked, and then they ask me in English "You are not going to Cairo". I haven't even arrived to Egypt and I was already lost in translation.

I finally arrived to Egypt got my tourist visa, it was faster then what I expected. Ellen, her husband and their daughter were there to greet me.  They took me to the rez. I was expecting a bunch of protest on the way to the rez, but it was all calm. We only passed by one check point. My apartment was bigger then what I expected, and they left water, cheese, and yogurt for us. They other group of people arrived 3 hours later, we all gathered in one of the other girls apartment and had dinner. We were all pretty tiered so we passed out early.

The next day it was our time to go shopping. We arrived at a huge Carrefour. It was packed it was 2 o'clock and the store closed at 4 due to the 6-7 curfew. It seemed I could barely walk in the aisles, it was packed with families, and workers. We only had two hours to buy food, and things for our apartment. When we finally made it checkout, everyone's fruits and vegetables had to be taken back. In Egypt you have to get a bar code for fruits and vegetables before you check out. At this point everyone was overwhelmed, so we decided to leave with out them.

It seems like I cant get used to this new schedule. I woke up at 4 a.m today. I decided to catch up worth some friends. I went to sleep again at 6 a.m. Only to be woken up by a laud knock on the door at 10:30 school maintenance was checking to see if everything was working. They fixed what needed to be fixed, and I went back to bed. Today we are suppose to go to the fruit and vegetable market, so lets see how that goes.