For the Eid Holiday, six out of the seven interns planned a trip to St. Catherine’s monastery and an eco-lodge resort on the Sinai Peninsula. We hired a personal driver because it would have been a logistical mess taking a public bus from one destination to the other and back to Cairo. We were supposed to depart 6:00am sharp, but the driver did not show up. We called him and he finally arrived at around 7:00am. This should be expected because in Egyptian culture, time is very loose, unlike in the States. Nagy, our driver, got us to St. Catherine’s in five and a half hours, but not without a couple scary turns and stopping at many checkpoints. The city near St. Catherine’s is small, mostly filled with hotels, souvenir shops, and a few restaurants. After
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