Hangin’ out with Scott and Willie from South Africa today!

We had a good time and they are really nice guys. Both are in their 30s, married and have children. Today was quite hot but they saw it as an opportunity to get used to the heat they will feel in Algeria over the next few weeks.

Yes, Algeria. The place that just had the major earthquake. That’s where they are headed now. Nothing associated with the quake, as their trip was already planned when it happened, but things still might be chaotic. They don’t know if there will be power in places…

Scott and Willie work with a Christian organization that my old roommate Darren’s friend Mike is part of. That’s how they got connected with me to stay here. It’s really worked out well.

They arrived around 8am, so we spent a bit of time chatting and relaxing, then went out shopping and checking out Cairo from 1-6pm. Scott got a couple of souvenirs to take back with him. We had nice prayers before both of the meals we shared together.

It’s 9pm and they are both headed for bed, since they’ve been awake for about 40 hours now! Yikes! I’ll stay up awhile yet, probably practicing a bit of Arabic and guitar. I read over Arabic notes earlier and got quite a bit of verbal practice with our outing this afternoon. So that leaves the guitar. I did some finger exercises earlier on the bus, but not much.

We’re getting up around 7am so that the guys can get a bus for the airport around 10am and fly out at 1pm. They’ll be back in a couple of weeks, right before I move to Tanta. Good timing!