6/24/08
Hello, anyone who is still looking here! I will be home in less than a week, and I'm looking forward to being with family and friends! I will definitely miss a lot of people and simply the lifestyle here, and am looking forward to coming back to continue my Arabic studies.
Today I went to the Giza Pyramids with a number of friends, including the whole family of the Egyptian, Maher, with whom I taught English, the Sudanese boy I tutor, Guma, a friend from Comoros, Ahmed, and a number of other Egyptians who I knew in my English class (or friends of those friends that I didn't know before today).
Here is a video and some pictures from today. If you've never heard the noises a camel makes, you're about to be surprised (at least, I was sure surprised . . . and a little freaked out!)!
Despise Guma's insistence on letting him down from the camel, by the end of the ride, we had to force him off as he insisted on riding it all the way back to his home (a one hour CAR ride away). In addition, I had taken him to see Indiana Jones 4, so the whole day he was either humming the theme music or, like me, saying "wow, this is like Indiana Jones" as we explored various tombs, tunnels and passage ways.
Here are some mostly self-explanatory pictures, with a few important notes:
Here Indy ponders a newly discovered tomb out of which have come some mysterious noises . . .
Once inside the tomb, Indy investigates the hieroglyphics and deciphers an encrypted message leading him to one of the greatest archeological finds in all history (which must of course not be mentioned on the internet) . . .
Indy exits the tomb, still overwhelmed with the discovery he just made . . .
!سلال
Andrew