Impressions of Egypt, Number 6
Thursday, 29 September 2005Whew… Our weekend in Cairo was definitely an adventure. And I think, frankly, that if we had started our visit to Egypt with the tourist sites in Cairo that our impression of Egypt would be *quite* different. On Thursday afternoon, we arrived at the train station in Cairo at about 4 p.m. We were met [...]
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Impressions of Egypt, Number 5
Monday, 26 September 2005Hello All – Sorry that I didn’t get this out before we left for Cairo this weekend. So, now I’m a little behind. This was our second week of class, and the textbooks have finally arrived (well, sortof)! For one of the courses, the students actually found a copy of the textbook in a local [...]
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Impressions of Egypt, Number 4
Monday, 19 September 2005Hello All – I thought that “Greetings from Egypt” was a lame subject line, so I’ve moved to “Impressions of Egypt,” which is at least marginally less lame. We started to stretch our wings this weekend, although we didn’t fly far. We had originally thought that we would go to Cairo this weekend. As the [...]
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Greetings from Egypt, Number 3
Friday, 16 September 2005Well, Monday was the start of class, and as you are reading this message I have completed my first week of classes in Egypt. We haven’t done much exciting so far this week other than establish a routine, plan for some people to visit us starting next week, and going out for another feast on [...]
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Greetings from Egypt, Number 2
Monday, 12 September 2005Hello Again, Everyone! This message is again quite long, although perhaps shorter than the last. My class starts on Monday, and I’ll be teaching Monday – Thursday. I think that for future messages my basic schedule will be to send one message out on Thursday, with a brief description of the happenings in class and [...]
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Greetings from Egypt, Number 1
Thursday, 8 September 2005Hello Everyone! Greetings from Egypt! This is my first message to this list. I have assembled this list of friends, family, and colleagues who were interested in hearing about our adventures in Egypt. Most of you told me that you wanted to be on this list. But several of you were added by me without [...]
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