We got picked up by our tour guide (George) at about 12 and we went to the pyramids first. It didn’t take us long to get there because they were a lot closer then you might think. First off the pyramids are huge. The blocks of granite that make it up are about four feet tall and each weight 2 tons, can you imagine how hard it was for the workers to stack millions of them to make the pyramids. In each pyramid there were deep holes where the excavators entered the tombs some were the actually tunnel the Egyptians used and some were made by the excavators. My dad and I went in to one of them, it was really cramped and small and when we got into the tomb there wasn’t anything except an empty sarcophagus. We left the pyramids and went and saw the sphinx it is a lot smaller then you expect but still wonderful to see.

We were heading towards the museum when the tour guide took us to a place and said we would see how the blow glass. We saw how they blow it and that was pretty interesting but then one of the workers in the store took us to a separate room and went on for an hour sales pitch trying to get us to buy perfume. When we finally got out of there we headed for the museum.

The museum was beautiful. It was filled with all kinds of ancient Egyptian artifacts and they had a copy of the Rosetta stone. We saw lots of different sculptures and thrones. We saw bed covered in gold and old wooden statues. The main thing we got to see was King Tuts belongings and sarcophagus. Every thing he owned was covered in gold and his sarcophaguses were each made out of pure solid gold weighing 250 pounds each. We saw the famous mask that you see every time you thing of Egypt it was amazing.

We got taken back to the apartment then got taken out to dinner by peter again. He took us to Al-Azhar Park. It was a former trash dump right by the city of the dead but they transformed it into a beautiful park. The park was right by a market. We got to go to the market and see everything there. While walking down the little roads winding the market some one came down the road fast as possible and I was really close to getting hit. But after that little upset we kept going and got to see beautiful building and a magnificent market.

I got to go to school today and I got a tour from peter which was nice. I got to meet a lot of the teachers and see a lot of place most of the kids don’t go. After that was over Sara my day and I went to this teacher apartment where he let us lounge around before we had to go to the book fair at the school. He made us a delicious dinner of quiche, salad, and potatoes and gave us cheese cake.

We then went to the book fair where I had to help 3 other high school kids watch little kids while there parents went shopping for books and that took up the rest of the night. Tomorrow I go to the Sudanese refugee school.