February 1, 2005
Today was the first day of classes for the spring semester at AUC.
The campus seemed almost deserted during January, but came to life
today. One of my classes is on the Greek campus, which is a block
away from the Falaki building where my office and other classes are.
The challenge of getting to the Greek campus is learning the art of
crossing a particularly busy street. (I suppose there are some streets
in Cairo that aren't busy, but we haven't found them yet.)
Street crossing is a game of dodging cars that go out of their way to
appear as if they will hit you, but to be fair, they are just trying to
see how close they can get without actually touching you.
The students are back!
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