I was so lucky to be invited to Cairo by my friend, Mona, who teaches at the same school as me in Brussels. Mona lives in Maadi, which is a satellite city just outside of Cairo. Maadi is actually considered to be in the Sahara Desert! On my first day in Cairo, we decided to take it easy, stay out of the heat and go shopping! We went to CityStars, which is this huge shopping centre just outside of the city. It had every store imaginable and ironically, being here reminded me more of Canada then living in Europe had. We walked around the mall for a few hours and then went to see the movie “Killers”. After the movie, we went to Chili’s for dinner (yes, they even had a Chili’s at this mall...) and
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