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I met him and told him about the lesson as we walked to Cairo Zoo. It was 5LE (or something like that) to get into the Zoo. As soon as we walked in, someone tried to tell us the zoo was closing for lunch in 20 minutes and we’d better go with him to the lions quick. We ignored him and kept walking. Every employee who wasn’t engaged feeding the animals offered to take us to the lions. Apparently, you can hold a baby lion there because they all kept saying “My friend, my friend, you want to hold Simba?” We ignored them and just walked around. It was so nice to see animals with enough room to really move in natural surroundings (so many of the zoos in Japan make me sad because the animals are in tiny concrete cages). The zoo was huge, but because it was so cheap we didn’t worry about seeing everything in one day. We walked around for about 3 hours I think and then went back near Mme. Hassan’s place because my partner had seen an American style grocery store there. We got some bread and peanut butter and granola bars to have some snacks in the room (for upcoming Ramadan-although we are going to try to fast) and also to save money during the week.
We got back to the room around 4. I put the music on my Ipod and I started rehearsing. We were going to watch Sufi dancing in the Citadel at 7, but my partner said I’d better rehearse. So that’s what I did all night long.
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I throughout the night to keep rehearsing because I was so nervous I couldn’t sleep. I woke up for good at 6AM and rehearsed until I was ready for another cold shower and then had some breakfast. At 9 I rehearsed some more and killed some time until 9:45 when I went downstairs to catch a cab. I got to Mme. Hassan’s house at 10AM and rang the bell. All the lights were off in the house still when someone answered the door and told me to have a seat.
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