Last night I met an Egyptian girl named Mona who's also studying at AMIDEAST but she's working on her English. She barely speaks English, but somehow I ended up hanging out with her for five hours. She was a total sweetheart- I told her I wanted to go shopping for shoes so she took me an hour out to Nasr City and showed me a whole bunch of stores, outlets, and malls to help me find the ones I was looking for. Mind you, I just met her on the very same day- Egyptians are insanely friendly. Her boyfriend also joined us, and they both took me and two other guys to CityStars, apparently the nicest mall in Egypt and the 2nd biggest in the Middle East. It was probably nicer than most of the malls in America. I didn't get any pictures but I'll definitely be making more trips there. This is what the mall looks like though:
The outlet stores have amazing prices - I got a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors for 60EGP, aka $12. Shopping is going to be VERY fun here.
