Well, this is it -- tomorrow, bright and early, I will be on my way to Paris! But I had a really great final night in Cairo. My friend Emmy, an Egyptian woman I met at Stanford last summer, had me over to her house to eat dinner and meet her family. They are totally delightful people. I couldn't speak any Arabic, and they couldn't speak any English, but the general niceness and well-wishing was clear. And Emmy's mom can cook up a storm! I had all kinds of traditional Egyptian food and LOVED it.
But the person who stole the show was definitely Emmy's ten-year-old nephew, who for some reason took a shine to me. He insisted on holding my hand all the way back to the metro, and he was clearly proud to be my escort from the way he puffed up when other kids walked by. He even sweet talked the metro attendants into letting him in behind me so he could gallantly walk me to the correct platform. CUTE.
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sounds like a fitting end to a great first half of your summer.
That's so sweet. I think that it's great that you ended your trip to Egypt with a "real" family. Maybe you'll visit them when you're there again next summer.
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