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19 March Cairo

3/24/2011

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 Willie takes Andrej and Hugo to the National Museum in the center of city. I stay to do laundry – hand wash – ushers me to a place where I really appreciate washing machines and dryers. It is actually quite satisfactory to do it – see your handiwork hang on a line! I sort through photos and prepare the blog to post when we find an opportunity. I am looking forward to see my friend Barb who has been in Cairo for almost 30 years. She speaks Arabic fluent and is not considered a Westerner amongst her team and friends anymore. Barb and I shared special times. We went jogging on the beach or did laps in the swimming pool or went for long walked during our annual conferences in Turkey. We visited Egypt several times for training and became even closer.

I hid myself under the shade of a canopy of dry palm leaves when I saw 2 people walking towards me: the one I immediately recognize – it was Barb wearing jeans and a fresh, blue t-shirt. It was wonderful to see one another and what an interesting place to have our reunion – on a backyards campsite on the outskirts of Cairo. She joined me under the palm shade and we had lots to catch up on – family news, friends, work, Egypt, America and all the changes not only taking place in Egypt, but also in Barb’s career. She was recently offered a senior leadership position and they are still working out the details of what exactly it will means: how much she will have to travel; how to visit and oversee all the countries under her leadership. Willie arrived back from taking the guys to the National Museum and it was good to visit together.

Barb left after 6 and the guys arrived at 7. They are very tired, but felt the visit was definitely worth it – it is quite overwhelming and they definitely only scratched the surface. One can literally spend months there and not exhaust the riches offered by the museum.

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    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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