{"id":31,"date":"2006-08-24T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-08-24T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T19:24:55","slug":"48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2006\/08\/24\/48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"48 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been in country now for about 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Some random thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>we picked a great neighborhood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 good size grocery stores in easy walking distance (and they will carry your groceries home if you want for the equivalent of less than $1US)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of restaurants within walking distance. quick take out, good pizza, upscale dining and EVERYBODY delivers. Some places outsource delivery to a delivery company that runs scooters. Other places have their own delivery boys.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of shops for other stuff: clothing, electronics (VERY expensive here and some of it is of questionable quality. You will see &#8220;soni&#8221; and &#8220;panysonyc&#8221; knock offs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Weather: it is hot. It is humid in the morning and evening. Sort of a marine layer off the nile. If you are sitting or standing still in the shade, it isn&#8217;t that bad.<\/p>\n<p>Apartment: our apartment is nice. Well furnished. need some art work for the walls but otherwise fine. It is odd living in an apartment again, hearing footsteps in the hall etc.<\/p>\n<p>Social: everybody is very friendly, very helpful. The faculty and staff of the University and hostel have been great. They are almost <em>too <\/em>nice.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody has a cell phone. sometimes 2.<\/p>\n<p>the traffic and taxis take some getting used to.<\/p>\n<p>Today we made our first solo taxi rides. we have been relying on our welcome buddy, Matt, to get us around. Matt is in the Arabic Studies faculty and speaks pretty good Egyptian Arabic (afaict). Today we struck out on our own to run some errands. Sounds silly, but it was an important milestone for us.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Friday, which is the start of the weekend. gonna unpack and maybe do some more shopping for odds and ends.<\/p>\n<p>Orientation starts sunday. Woot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been in country now for about 48 hours. Some random thoughts: we picked a great neighborhood: 2 good size grocery stores in easy walking distance (and they will carry your groceries home if you want for the equivalent of less than $1US) Lots of restaurants within walking distance. quick take out, good pizza, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settling-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}