Ahlan wa sahlan! (Welcome)

Hello everyone, and welcome to my site. This is where I will be posting pictures and writing about my experiences in Egypt.

Please stop by as often as you can, and let me know what is going on in your live's as well.
It's always good to hear news from home.

Take care, and I will see you in January when I am home for the semester break!

Love,
Sarah

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Abby & Sara H.


Abby


Sara

There are 3 Sara(h)s at our school teaching English, and Sara H. is one of them. I am going to talk about Sara and Abby together because they are so much alike, and they spend so much time together, that the rest of us girls think of them as one person. You can’t have Abby without Sara.

Abby & Sara are both from Massachusetts and went to a private, alternative, arts-based high school together there. They are two of the funniest people I have ever met in my life. They are constantly cracking jokes and making sarcastic remarks about things, and they both have a very dry, witty sense of humor. They also have a unique sense of style that I call sheik-bohemian. They love to wear stripes, polka-dots, and bright colors, and they usually wear mismatching skirts and shirts together and love to layer their clothes. On anyone else, their clothing would look ridiculous, but they both pull it off and somehow look good doing it.

After high school, Abby & Sara moved to D.C. together where they both attended college. Upon graduation, Sara got a job as an English teacher in the Ukraine, and Abby stayed back in D.C. and worked as a bartender. Sara is the one who found out about and applied for a teaching job in Egypt, and then she called Abby to convince her to come with as well. Abby was so distraught over having to go 1 year without Sara while she was in the Ukraine, that she didn’t hesitate in coming to Egypt with her this year.

Abby and Sara were a bit anti-social the first month we were here and they spent all of their free time alone because they wanted to catch up after being apart for a year. However, now they are regulars when we all hang out together, and they are an essential part of the group. I love those 2 girls, and I am always laughing when they are around.