Pyramids, The Sphinx, and Camels! Oh My!

As part of our orientation schedule, the new teachers had an option to go to the Pyramids of Giza. Of course we went! The school provided two buses and about 30 of us went. A returning teacher and his wife were extremely knowledgeable in all things relating to the pyramids, and they were our tour guides. There's really nothing I can say to describe how awesome the trip was. I will just leave pictures for you with a few descriptions.

The whole group

I don't even remember what was so funny!

Zach's camel's name was 007 and mine was Michael Jackson.

We Made it to Egypt

Our trip started in Louisville where we flew to Chicago. While in the Chicago airport, we met so many of our soon-to-be co-workers. We are all going to be working at American International School of Egypt - AISE

Group picture in the airport

It was so great to be able to meet some of the people we would be working with before we even got to Egypt.

We arrived in Cairo on a Thursday night and hit the ground running the very next day to go apartment hunting. The school put us in groups of about 3-4 and sent us with a returning teacher and a realtor. Everyone in our group found an apartment that first day. (Pictures of apartment to come.)

The rest of the weekend was spent bonding, going to meetings, setting up our apartments, and shopping at the mall!

After our shopping trip

This past week, we were able to see our classrooms (pictures to come) and start getting things ready....and going to meetings.

I'm really excited to meet all of the returning teachers this coming week!