The population of Cairo is 19 million at night and 23 million during the day — it is a city on the move. We are half a world away from the US, but all anyone is talking about is the election. CNN is a different animal overseas — truly world news. And tonight it is all the US election all the time. It will be 5AM here when the polls close in the USA — so we will go to bed and wake up (hopefully) to a clear cut victory.
But today at school it was all about poetry for the students of Cairo American College. I got to talk to the elementary in two assemblies today, watch a first grade class perform a reader’s theater rap, wrote with some middle schoolers, and Michael and I put on a model poetry slam outside for the HS.
Only in an international school do I have the privilege to talk to kids in pre-school through HS all in the same day. A student who interviewed me for the yearbook asked me what I like about my job today and I answered THAT is it — I love the variety.
After school the elementary librarian Anne took me out to do some shopping and then we kicked back for an hour before joining elementary principal Seamus Marriott and his staff for elegant snacks and cold drinks on his spacious balcony overlooking the lights of Cairo. As we have from the first day we arrived, the conductor orchestrating our visit has been Peter Duckett. It was simply a beautiful day.
Great pictures! Can’t wait till you get home so we can celebrate the election together!!