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Mme. Hassan tried to open up the studio but it was locked from the inside I think, so we went to a different room in her apartment and she asked me to show her what I had worked on. I showed it to her, she corrected me and I worked on it until she thought it was good. Then she taught me the next 11 seconds. She’d caught on to my horrible choreography memory and was teaching at a slower pace. She kept coming and going and checking my progress. Then she taught me the next 10 seconds, again coming and going and finally the next 5. I was up to 1:30 in the song now and we decided that was a good place to stop so that I could rehearse. She told me I was welcome to use the studio, so I did for about the next hour alone.
When I finished I let myself into her main room. She had 2 other guests. In between chatting with them, she’d chat with me. After about an hour we had tea and then later we had lunch. We sat around together and she showed me the flyers she’d just received for an upcoming workshop she’s teaching in Paris. Then I excused myself because I’d been there for about 3.5 hours and I thought my partner might be getting worried. She asked me if I wanted to meet at the same time tomorrow and I said “yes” and then she told me that daylight savings time had started yesterday and both days I had arrived an hour early (YIKES!!), so please change my clock. I apologized, of course and said I would.
The traffic had been bad during the morning, so bad that almost twice I had asked to be let out of the cab. It was much worse when I left the studio, around 12:30. It was so bad that I kept passing the same bus driving down the street, so I decided just to walk home. I was a little worried because it was my first time walking anywhere alone. I did pretty well ignoring everyone and only had 1 man follow me. He said he worked at the Cairo Sheraton and any time I wanted to go swimming it was on him and he’d also take me to the pyramids if I wanted. When I told him I was on my way to my room to meet my husband though, he said “goodbye.”
I got back to the room and had some lunch and a nap and then a nice, hot shower. Around 4:30, I got up and we decided to go to the Museum of Modern Art. It was 10LE to get in and was one of the best galleries I’ve ever been in. Although on the 2nd floor we thought that one of the guards was following us a bit too much and a bit too close.
Then we grabbed a bite to eat and went home. I kept trying the water but it was still cold.
9/10
I was didn’t rehearse this morning. I felt like I was possibly getting sick of the music by listening to it all of the time. I called Mme. Hassan at what I thought was 9:45 to confirm the time and see if 10 was still ok. She asked if we could move it to 12. I said ok.
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