An Egyptian Thug

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We went to the mall today to do a little shopping. We were eating in the food court...(yes, Egypt has malls and food courts, ) and I saw this man. To me, he looked like what I thought to be an Egyptian "thug". haha. I tried to take a photo of him nonchalantly, but really I was very obvious.

For your enjoyment....

[jennlin]

hehehe. he probably thought you thought he was hot.

[hallows]

Hah! Too funny. Could he tell? Did he say anything?

[jennlin]

what are their malls like? are they like ours? with a gap, macy's, etc? how many american stores are there? are they chain-like stores? what's in the food court? how did you get to the mall? walk? bus? train? everything is SO FASCINATING!

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No he didn't say anything. He was speaking Arabic....I am not sure if he could speak English or not. If he came at me speaking Arabic, I would have just stared and then walked away. Haha. so whatever.

Two of the girls I was with acting like I was taking a photo of them, and then I just took a photo of him...but they said I turned the camera a lot so it didn't even look like I was getting them. hahah. oh well.

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I am going to put a blog up about the mall. But yes, there was a Claires, a Nine West, a Guess. They are putting in an H&M. They have Starbucks, Hardees, and KFC in the food court. No department stores. We took a taxi to the mall. And our taxi driver today actually spoke pretty good English. That was fun.

eta: this is a small mall. I was told today that there is another huge mall that has theaters in it and a whole bunch of stuff.

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It sounds like you're settling in well!

[amandasw]

wait until you go to Kuwait! seriously, guys in the ME are... very into themselves

ETA: also it cracks me up that they still have Seattle's Best over there, and we don't even have them here anymore!

[Deleted]

Yah, we love it here. Actually I forgot to mention that my second day, I got sick and had to go to the hospital. But it was just a bad case of food poisoning. I am on about 2 days away from being off the meds from it now. The hospital was great. And I got 5 prescriptions.....which came to a total of $10! haha. I plan to blog about that too.

[jennlin]

Where are you making these friends? Are they other teach-abroad teachers?

[picksthemusic]

Haha, that's pretty funny.

[Deleted]

Yah. Just other teachers from my school. The school brought in 6 teachers, including me, for this year. And there are two teachers we are talking to that were here before.

[macpanda]

That dude looks awesome! ha. The mall and your hospital experience are also fascinating. Sorry you had food poisoning but glad you're on the mend.