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Only a few weeks to departure, I'm getting nostalgic about my view
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This side isn't so picturesque, but the early morning light helps
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And the buildings opposite where colleagues live
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One last visit to the Egyptian Museum with Kim and Maria
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Looks like King Ramses II and Queen Nefertari are held together with scotch tape
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Kittens under the watchful gaze of pharaohs, in a blocked-off corridor
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Where children play amidst the artifacts
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The room devoted to Akhenaten, the heretic king
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Maria in the museum
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None of the statues had a neck either
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A copy of the Rosetta Stone and the bust of the man who used it to decipher hieroglyphics, Jean-François Champollion
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Kim kindly kept taking our photo
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Part of a large papyrus showing the gods along the Nile
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From the museum, we walked to the Moroccan restaurant at the Zamalek Sofitel
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Where we each ordered a pink drink
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The last few months of my stay, Zamalek became a construction site -- new metro station, new sidewalks and pavement, and here new pipes
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Now looking the other way
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Goodbye dinner with Rita at Osmanli
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At the end of my final NileTESOL board meeting -- on my left: Jon, Alex, Hanan; and behind me: Samir, Eman, Eglal, Mai, and Ghada
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A last look at Sheikh Rihan Street before jumping in the car
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The old villa opposite the embassy on the north side
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Saying goodbye to Access alumni in Azhar Park
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They decorated a frame for our photos later on
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And they tried to answer questions about me and about Spanish
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With Maged, our fabulous photographer-videographer
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We were a small group because it was exam time, Ramadan, and 43 C (Maged's photo)
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On our way home, I saw shops in Sayeda Zeinab decorated for Ramadan
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I didn't think I'd be back here, but another big moment in my final weeks was signing our MOU with Ain Shams University
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MOU signed
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Filling in for a sick colleague to proctor a final exam, Dr. Magda unfortunately couldn't be there
