Saturday, January 14, 2006

Royal family in Egypt- Matt

Greetings all, love all the stories about adjusting back into "normal life". I am delaying it as long as possible though my travels end in a few days.

To keep myself busy until that time comes I have been kuyenda-ing around the Sinai area in eastern Egypt. Egypt is a wonderful mix of the new york city, old arabic history, and my image of Pakistan. Mostly dry but wonderful scenery, especially around the Mount Sinai area, where Moses found the burning bush and the Ten commandments. For the record the bush is not burning. Travel is easy here though our minibus driver was quite close to hitting a camel at full speed(some things dont change).

Yesterday while climbing the mountain it snowed on us, today i think i will go snorkeling. Pretty cool place. Did a bit of canyon treking as well. All in all though really looking forward to seeing the family.

Anyone going to be in Florida in February?

Matt(in arabic means death)

ps the royal family thing came from a tour of the valley of kings where i was named king of the south. which by the way actually has a bigger settling allowance than peace corps.

1 Comments:

At 12:27 AM, Blogger taughtmalawi said...

Sounds like you're having lots of fun in Egypt. The sense of history that permeates that area is really impressive.

But to answer your question, at least for me, you hung out with the pharoahs too long. I'm leaving Florida on 16 January -- my flight leaves just 12 hours from now. I never thought I'd say this, but boy am I looking forward to going to Texas!

Still not sure where I'll be living a few weeks from now, but once I have it figured out, you all are welcome to stop by. If I'll have a couch, you're welcome to it. *:-]

( -- Scott )

 

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