The first day in Egypt اليوم الاول في مصر

After spending a long day in London during my layover, I got to Cairo at 1 am to my hostal. The next morning, this morning, I called my roommate Alejandra, a Spanish girl, and made it over to my apartment. The cab drivers are almost as clueless as you are (Cairo's a big city), and mine had to make 3 stops to get directions to my place. We found it, and I spent the afternoon getting settled in and getting to know my neighborhood. Had dinner with two friends  who are living in Egypt right now, and it turns out we live about a 5 minute walk from each other. After dinner I wandered more around the streets, knowing that I wanted to find a cafe to sit and have tea. After passing several places I finally saw the one. Egyptian coffee shops are always small, dirty, and the best place to have a conversation. Started talking to one guy sitting there who couldn't really understand why this blond dude was speaking to him in broken arabic, but the great thing is that as soon as you talk to one guy all his buddies start talking to you, and that way two other guys sat down whom I chatted with for a long time. One of them tried to convert me to Islam, so I did, and that made him very happy. Al-Hamdulilla. These conversations made me remember why I loved Egypt so much the first time I went. People genuinely want to be your friend, and they love to talk and ask you questions. I know that I will be doing a lot of sitting and talking, which is more or less all the Egyptians do, during my 6 months here. I'm going to put up links, probably to a MySpace page, where I'll be posting songs that I record. Please comment or write back or whatever and keep in touch. Lotsa love