Tahrir Square!

A friend we have made while Egypt shared with us his photos from the 5 days he spent in Tahrir Square. An incredible experience for him, and I feel privileged to be able to share it with you.

Please keep Egypt and Egyptians in all your thoughts. Peace.

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http://hashish.smugmug.com/EgyptianPeopleCivilizedUprisin

Mr. Dinner is safe!

Thank you very much for everyone's thoughts and prayers. It was greatly appreciated and worked like a charm. My wife Tasha and I are out of Cairo, but our thoughts remain with our neighbours and friends, not to mention our students who are left behind.

I will update more once we've had a chance to catch our breath and digest all we have seen and done in the last month.

Thanks again. I feel truly blessed. Peace.

Here are a couple of photos from our last day in Cairo.

Neighbours stocking up.

Our 'alley-block'.

Neighbourhood road-block.

Security guard?!?

Keeping the peace in our neighbourhood and watching over our place while we are gone. I can think of no better hands! Thanks fellas!

The tank at the entrance to our neighbourhood.

On our way to the airport!!

Cairo City Champions!!

In Egypt, volleyball ranks very near the bottom in terms of sporting popularity - first being football, umm, I mean soccer - which probably is more accurately the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd most popular sport!! This followed by European handball, basketball, and then maybe volleyball. Maybe.

In any event, we managed to put together a team for a city tournament - we had about eight practices, maybe nine, and two exhibition games to get us ready - and WE WON!! It was an exciting day as we went undefeated to the finals where the boys won a three set thriller, two games to one (25-14, 24-26, 25-23). It was awesome, and just another reason teaching is pretty much the coolest profession on Earth!!

C.I.S.E - Cairo City Champs #1!!