Temples and cats and buffalos...Oh My!!

These children hangout outside my house screaming Tobie....Tobie....TOOOOOBBBBBIIIIIEEE!!! They ask for "Halawayat" (sweets). I give them gummy bears or bananas. Its always trick or treat time here.

This is Ahmed carrying my wood for sandpaper letters, and me cautiously following behind....taking pictures.

Here is my favorite neighborhood hareware store. Organize this!

This is was the stray Egyptian cat my colleagues rescued, and has set up camp on my couch.

Her name began as Aneta

then changed to Katza

then changed to Keg Stand

then changed to Milo

then changed to Nefertiti

then her balls dropped and changed to Ramsey

then to Ghandi because she refuses food unless she gets what she wants

But I just call her Bitch Face.

Lovely Egypt sunset, and sailing down the Nile

Karnak and Luxor Temple

The Mosk in the center of the East Bank

Jamws al'ma (buffalo)

He lives behind the school and I give him dates from a stick-usually gets a chuckle or two from my students. (or maybe they are laughing at my Jamws al'ma immpression)

Some shots from Dendara, and the Temple of Hathor. Hathor being the Goddess of Love, Beauty, and Joy. This temple was built somewhere between 125 BC and 60 BC. This temple has been my favorite so far because of the secret doorways and stairs leading into hidden hallways and rooms. Quite exciting.

This picture is too dark, but Im squeezing through a hole maybe 2 feet by 3 into a secret chamber.

And then the roof.