-boarded flight to Rome. Sat next to Italian man who kept asking me questions about life in Miami for most of the flight. Saw 500 Days of Summer again. The mix cd scene kills me every time.
-Saw the sunrise over Italy while listening to Marissa Nadler's "No Surprises." Got excited over seeing mountains (since I'm from Florida, I rarely see mountains)
Dec. 11:
-The Italian airport is bananas and is really tacky looking. The people, though, are dressed nicely (duh, I'm in Italy). I look like a slob next to them. ugh.
-Arrived in Cairo, heard the call to prayer while walking out of the airport. Like Turkish men, many Egyptian men smoke, even while on the job.
-The traffic is crazy here. No one uses their headlights or change lights, and the honking never. stops. In addition, people constantly walk across the highways/streets, as seen here:
Dec. 12:
-Visited the pyramids.
-rode a camel. Egyptian men don't touch women, so the man helping me off the camel asked me if I can touch him (direct quote "can you touch?". It was very, very weird.)
-Went to Cairo museum. Unfortunately, cameras are not allowed inside, but I did see this:
King Tut's Mask, along with all of his other possessions
and this (mummies):
The mummies were quite creepy. After all, I was looking at something that has been dead for thousands (!) of years.
-Afterwards, we went to the downtown area to shop. We got there just in time to hear the call to prayer. When I visited Turkey last year, I heard it all the time (it is a predominately Muslim country, after all). Anyways, it's so beautiful I made sure to make a recording of it:
I never liked bazaars, due to the constant hassle the shopkeepers give you to get you into their booth. I always felt uncomfortable, and I will soon find out that the men who work in the bazaars in Egypt are far worse than those in Turkey.
-That night, we at a Tex-Mex (yes, tex-mex) restaurant. They played Pitbull (!) and Lady Gaga (!!) It made me miss my friends.
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