The journey begins!

Hello everyone!

So i wanted to give you a more detailed description of my flight and my first two days here in Egypt.

I mentioned before that I had some trouble with my flight from New York to Cairo. There was aparrently a fire in the control in new york and we sat on the tarmac for an hour. And then when we got to Cairo there was an air show going on and we had to circle Cairo for an hour. So altogether we were about an hour and a half late landing. But i got off the plane and someone from the camp met me and I had no trouble getting a visa a going through Egypt customs. After I left the airport a counselor from the camp took me out to lunch in Cairo. I spent the afternoon in Cairo hanging out with counselors from the camp and waiting for another team to arrive. We then picked them up from the airport about 5:30 and got our first experience of Cairo traffic. It was ridiculous. Imagine downtown Atlanta if a concert, braves game, and hawks game has just gotten out but there are no red lights and no one uses signals. That might give you a small idea of what it was like. It took us 3 hours just to get out of Cairo.

So by the time we got out of Cairo and stopped to eat dinner ( at Mcdonalds by the way :) ) and got to the camp it was almost 10 pm egypt time (3 pm atl time) and I hadn't slept in 31 hours. I got no sleep on the plane. But of course I had to watch the end of the soccer match!.... no seriously, the Egyptians might have hurt me if i didnt watch the match and went to bed. They like their soccer, thats for sure.

So i finally went to bed and got to sleep in and spent all day Friday at a conference that is going on here at the camp. It seemed like a great conference, and i wish i could have attended the whole thing. \

Egyptians are incredibly friendly. The joke here is that the Egyptians bug the Americans because they are always joking around and not taking things seriously. Egyptians also do not really keep track of time. They will say something starts at a certain time, but they spend so much time just enjoying what they are doing and laughing they are always late to the next thing. I have really enjoyed getting to know them.

But today the camp has started. I am coaching soccer during the major sports time (caa people that is like our specialties time) and it lasts 2 hours. Throughout the rest of the day I just kind of help the counselors run games and keep track of scores. (They also have alpha and omega competitions).

So all in all it has been an incredible trip so far. I have had no problems with the food or with the time change (knock on wood). But please keep me in your prayers. Also, my roommate is having a pretty hard time. He has been in bed all day with a sick stomach. So please pray for him too! Thanks guys!