Welcome to my blog. Throughout the next few months, I will be updating this regularly to keep everyone back in the U.S. informed about my experiences, travels and other great things that I do in Cairo.

Today is Sunday, August 12 and although I don’t leave for Cairo until Saturday, August 25, I am just beginning the process of packing and saying my good-byes. I actually will be in Washington for Welcome Week at my school, American University, so I need to be packed up and ready to go to Egypt by Thursday, August 16 (very scary, I know). I have so much to do in the next few days that I am bound to forget some item or forget to say goodbye to someone, so if you are that item and/or person, I apologize thoroughly.

My next update will probably come the day before I leave.

Salaam aleikum (Peace be with you in Arabic – yes, I know Arabic, or at least enough to survive in Cairo for 4 months)