This past week was the last week of the trip. It's hard to believe that I'm already going home...it seems like I just got here. It was an eventful week though...I haven't yet had a chance to write about it so I'll be catching up with this post.
Last Sunday night, after going back to Stabl Antar to finish our service learning work, we met up with some of our Egyptian friends and went to the World Cup qualifying soccer match between the national teams from Egypt and Congo. I wish soccer was this popular in America! It was a ton of fun... Cairo International Stadium was huge and almost packed with fans. Not you're typical fans like in America, these people eat, breath, and bleed for the Egptian football team. When Congo scored first it was like we were at a funeral, everyone sat down and wasn't very happy. Congo seemed to be the more skilled team and played better, but Egypt came back with 2 goals within the last 20 minutes to make it a hell of a game to watch! Safe to say the fans were a little more pleased with that result.
After class on Monday and Tuesday morning, we met up again with the Egyptians and went to a sporting club to try to play some soccer. This was an experience in itself. We got there and walked around the place, and it was PACKED with hundreds and hundreds of little kids. This was weird at first, since it was around 11pm by the time we got in there, but these kids didn't care, they just wanted to play some football. It get's better though. We tried to go on one of the fields and it was as if we were the Brazilian national team or something. All these kids swarmed around us and wanted to play with us, which was kind of cool at first but got pretty annoying. But it was awesome to talk to some of them and kick the ball around. Once all the kid left, we finally got to play some real soccer. Makes me realize how much I miss playing...definately a little rusty at first, but started to get a little touch back as the night went on. Kareem and Adam were definately two of the better Egyptian players, so it was fun to play with them. We ended up staying until about 1 or 1:30, even though we had to get back after to finish up homework. Hey, you're not in Egypt too often, right?
Wendsday and Thursday was mostly class and homework...and getting ready for our Fluids Final on Friday. It'll be nice to get home on Monday, but I'm not really ready to leave yet either.
Last Sunday night, after going back to Stabl Antar to finish our service learning work, we met up with some of our Egyptian friends and went to the World Cup qualifying soccer match between the national teams from Egypt and Congo. I wish soccer was this popular in America! It was a ton of fun... Cairo International Stadium was huge and almost packed with fans. Not you're typical fans like in America, these people eat, breath, and bleed for the Egptian football team. When Congo scored first it was like we were at a funeral, everyone sat down and wasn't very happy. Congo seemed to be the more skilled team and played better, but Egypt came back with 2 goals within the last 20 minutes to make it a hell of a game to watch! Safe to say the fans were a little more pleased with that result.
After class on Monday and Tuesday morning, we met up again with the Egyptians and went to a sporting club to try to play some soccer. This was an experience in itself. We got there and walked around the place, and it was PACKED with hundreds and hundreds of little kids. This was weird at first, since it was around 11pm by the time we got in there, but these kids didn't care, they just wanted to play some football. It get's better though. We tried to go on one of the fields and it was as if we were the Brazilian national team or something. All these kids swarmed around us and wanted to play with us, which was kind of cool at first but got pretty annoying. But it was awesome to talk to some of them and kick the ball around. Once all the kid left, we finally got to play some real soccer. Makes me realize how much I miss playing...definately a little rusty at first, but started to get a little touch back as the night went on. Kareem and Adam were definately two of the better Egyptian players, so it was fun to play with them. We ended up staying until about 1 or 1:30, even though we had to get back after to finish up homework. Hey, you're not in Egypt too often, right?
Wendsday and Thursday was mostly class and homework...and getting ready for our Fluids Final on Friday. It'll be nice to get home on Monday, but I'm not really ready to leave yet either.
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